Departmental Data Protection

Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales 
	(1)  if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's IT security hierarchy;
	(2)  what scanning for vulnerabilities his Department conducts of each of its IT devices; what method is used for IT device scans; and how many vulnerabilities have been detected as a result of such scans in the last 12 months;
	(3)  what IT security policy his Department has; what procedures are in place to ensure the policy is being followed; what his Department's policy is on encryption of data when it leaves departmental premises; and what sanctions are in place for failure to comply with this policy.

Paul Murphy: The Wales Office is provided with its IT services by the Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for IT security. Safeguards and audit capabilities are in place to ensure their policies are followed.
	When leaving departmental premises, all data is required to be encrypted, and the capability to copy data onto removable media such as CDs or memory sticks is significantly limited. Staff found not to be complying with this policy risk disciplinary action.

DVLA: Personal Records

Shailesh Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many  (a) customer case and  (b) other files containing personal information have been lost by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Fitzpatrick: Individual cases are managed via an electronic casework system. This has been accredited to Government security standards and there have been no data loss from this system.
	There are paper-based casework files that are held both at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency HQ and its local offices. These files are managed locally and the cost of collecting information for lost or misplaced files would be prohibitive.

Departmental Redundancy

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland with reference to the answer of 25 November 2008,  Official Report, column 1163W, on redundancy, what estimate has he made of the annual payroll savings resulting from staff exit schemes in  (a) 2005-06,  (b) 2006-07,  (c) 2007-08 and  (d) 2008-09 excluding the cost of severance packages; and what estimate he has made of the equivalent figures for 2009-10.

Shaun Woodward: Further to the answer given on 25 November 2008, as corrected on 24 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1MC, all staff referred to left the Northern Ireland Office on early retirement terms and not on staff exit schemes.

Anti-Semitism: West Midlands

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will request the Chief Constable of the West Midlands to compile a report on the  (a) number and  (b) location of reported anti-Semitic incidents in the West Midlands since December 2008; and if she will make a statement.

Alan Campbell: The Government abhor all forms of hate crime including that of anti-Semitism. From April 2008 police forces have been collecting hate crime statistics, using the race, faith, disability or homophobic flag to indicate whether an offence is considered to be aggravated by these factors. This data is for intelligence purposes, to better understand any trends in hate crime and to target resources. These will include anti-Semitic hate crime.

Asylum

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 9 December 2004,  Official Report, columns 733-7W, to the right hon. Member for Birkenhead on asylum and immigration, how many asylum seekers have been dispersed to each parliamentary constituency in the latest two-year period for which figures are available.

Phil Woolas: Information on the number of asylum seekers that have been dispersed to each parliamentary constituency over a two year period is not collated centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	Statistics on the location of asylum seekers in the UK are published in tables 5 and 6 of the quarterly bulletin Control of Immigration on the number of asylum seekers in receipt of support at the end of the quarter, broken down by Government office, region and local authority.
	Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html.
	Further break downs by parliamentary constituency are available from the Library of the House.

Genetics: Databases

Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 25 November 2008,  Official Report, columns 1249-51W, on genetics: databases, how many and what proportion of recorded crimes have been detected using DNA from the national DNA database in each month since April 2008; and if she will make a statement.

Alan Campbell: The number and proportion of recorded crimes detected in which a DNA match was available for 2008-09 to date is shown in table 1. Data on the number of crimes detected with a DNA match are collected on a quarterly, rather than a monthly, basis. The figures provided are for quarters 1 and 2 of 2008-09; the quarter 3 figures are not yet available. Table 1 also includes projected figures for the full year 2008-09 which are based on the figures for quarters 1 and 2.
	The figures for the number of crimes detected in which a DNA match was available only include crimes detected in which a DNA match was reported by the National DNA Database (NDNAD). They do not include DNA matches which arise through case work in serious crime, which usually involve comparing DNA profiles in a forensic laboratory; this data is not collected centrally. It is also important to note that the detections are achieved through integrated criminal investigation, not through DNA alone.
	The presentation of crimes detected with DNA as a proportion of total recorded crime undervalues the relative contribution of DNA to the crime detection rate.
	It should be noted that the majority of recorded crimes do not have a crime scene (for example, minor assault, drugs offences, theft, fraud etc.) and do not have a crime scene examination. In 2007-08, just over 854,000 crimes had a crime scene examination (17 per cent. of recorded crimes). In those crimes which have a crime scene examination, some do not yield any forensic material (DNA or fingerprints). In 2007-08, potential DNA material was collected at 102,400 crimes; and of these, 41,800 crimes yielded DNA crime scene samples of sufficient quantity and quality for profiling and loading to the NDNAD. Of the 41,800 crimes in which a crime scene sample profile was loaded, a match was generated in 37,375 crimes (this represents 89 per cent. of crimes where DNA material was loaded to the NDNAD).
	The proportion of 'crimes detected in which a DNA match was available', of those, 'crimes where potential DNA material was collected' is shown in table 2.
	
		
			  Table 1 
			   Detected crimes in which a DNA match was available ('DNA  d etections')  Additional detections arising from the DNA match( 1)  Total detected crimes in which a DNA match was available or played a part  Total recorded crime  Proportion of 'total crimes detected in which a DNA match was available or played a part' of total recorded crime (percentage) 
			 Q1 2008-09 4,557 4,369 8,926 1215,600 0.73 
			 Q2 2008-09 4,418 3,799 8,217 1,208,800 0.68 
			 Year to date (first two quarters) 8,975 8,168 17,143 2,424,400 0.71 
			 Projected figure for 2008-09(2) 17,950 16,336 34,286 4,848,800 0.71 
			 (1) Additional detections may result from the original crime with the DNA match due to the identification of further offences through forensic linkage or through admission by the offender. (2) The projected figures for 2008-09 are based on the actual figures for quarters 1 and 2 of 2008-09 multiplied by two. 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2 
			   Detected crimes in which a DNA match was available ('DNA  d etections')  Additional detections arising from the DNA match( 1)  Total detected crimes in which a DNA match was available or played a part  Crimes where potential DNA material collected  Proportion of 'crimes detected in which a DNA match was available' of 'crimes where potential DNA material collected' (percentage) 
			 Q1 2008-09 4,557 4,369 8,926 24,103 37.03 
			 Q2 2008-09 4,418 3,799 8,217 25,076 32.77 
			 Year to date (first two quarters) 8,975 8,168 17,143 49,179 34.86 
			 Projected figure for 2008-09 17,950 16,336 34,286 98,358 34.86 
			 (1) Additional detections may result from the original crime with the DNA match due to the identification of further offences through forensic linkage or through admission by the offender.

Genetics: Databases

Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 23 January 2008,  Official Report, column 2062W, on genetics: database, what research projects utilising data from the national DNA database have been approved since 15 January 2008; and if she will make a statement.

Alan Campbell: No research projects using data from the national DNA database have been approved since the previous answer of 23 January 2008,  Official Report, column 2062W.

Human Trafficking: Essex

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officers in Essex Police Force have received training on the Council of Europe Convention Against Trafficking of Human Beings in the last three years.

Alan Campbell: The UK signed the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings in 2007 and ratified it in December 2008. The UKHTC are currently developing a short dvd to be distributed to police officers in all forces on the National Referral Mechanism which is a core element of the requirements of the Convention.
	All police forces in England and Wales have sent officers to the training courses devised and delivered by the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) and this work has been reinforced by the distribution of awareness raising material sent electronically to all police officers. The UKHTC in conjunction with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) are also in the process of rolling out training modules on human trafficking to be included in mainstream police courses. All of this work involves an element of training specifically on the Convention.
	Forces were additionally made aware of the requirements of the convention as part of Operation Pentameter 2 which included a trial of the national referral mechanism to be introduced from 1 April 2009.

Personation

James Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to prevent fraud against private enterprises by persons impersonating individuals known to be dead.

Alan Campbell: Under the Police and Justice Act 2006 and the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006, the Registrars General for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland can disclose death registration information to assist in the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of offences.
	Under the Disclosure of Death Registration Information (DDRI) scheme, the supply of death registration records to vetted organisations commenced on 6 October 2008. The scheme is administered by the General Register Office for England and Wales on behalf of the three Registrars General. Six organisations are currently in receipt of a weekly supply of death registration records, and further applications to receive the data are being processed. The information is being used to prevent and detect fraudulent applications for financial gain. Early results show that pension funds, banks and mortgage companies have been using this data to check against loan and credit card applications, insurance payouts and pensions.
	Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has for some years matched death data against passport records and identified a number of fraudulently issued passports, as well as stopping fraudulent applications made using such identities. Close liaison with law enforcement agencies in taking action against those responsible would include consideration of wider criminality, including the impact on private enterprise, particularly the financial sector.

Police: Finance

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009,  Official Report, columns 165-66W, on police: finance, how much funding was allocated to each police force in each year from 2004-05 to 2009-10; and if she will make a statement.

Vernon Coaker: The information requested is set out in the following table.
	
		
			  £ million 
			   Allocation after floors and scaling 
			  Police authority  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09  2009-10 
			 Avon and Somerset 162.2 170.0 161.8 167.9 173.7 179.7 
			 Bedfordshire 62.1 65.1 64.0 66.4 68.5 70.8 
			 Cambridgeshire 73.4 77.9 73.8 76.5 78.7 81.0 
			 Cheshire 107.2 111.3 110.8 114.8 117.6 120.5 
			 Cleveland 86.8 90.9 89.8 93.0 95.3 97.7 
			 Cumbria 59.6 62.1 61.8 64.0 65.6 67.2 
			 Derbyshire 101.2 105.0 102.0 105.8 109.2 112.6 
			 Devon and Cornwall 166.7 173.0 171.4 177.5 181.9 186.4 
			 Dorset 63.6 66.0 60.0 62.2 63.7 65.3 
			 Durham 84.2 87.8 84.0 87.0 89.2 91.4 
			 Essex 160.9 167.0 162.6 168.5 173.0 177.9 
			 GLA—Police 1,822.0 1,927.8 1,818.3 1,883.7 1,930.0 1,978.3 
			 Gloucestershire 58.9 61.1 54.5 56.5 57.8 59.3 
			 Greater Manchester 393.2 412.5 417.4 432.7 445.6 458.9 
			 Hampshire 190.5 197.7 190.4 197.3 202.2 207.5 
			 Hertfordshire 104.8 108.8 110.4 114.4 117.7 121.1 
			 Humberside 114.6 118.9 117.8 122.0 125.1 128.4 
			 Kent 182.6 189.5 176.2 182.6 187.2 192.1 
			 Lancashire 182.9 190.8 187.0 193.7 198.8 204.1 
			 Leicestershire 102.0 107.7 107.5 111.5 114.7 118.0 
			 Lincolnshire 60.6 63.4 58.3 60.5 62.3 64.3 
			 Merseyside 248.4 257.7 245.0 253.8 260.6 267.4 
			 Norfolk 82.2 85.9 80.5 83.4 85.4 87.6 
			 North Yorkshire 72.7 75.4 70.5 73.0 74.8 76.7 
			 Northamptonshire 64.3 67.8 69.2 71.7 73.5 75.5 
			 Northumbria 221.4 232.2 229.7 238.0 243.8 249.9 
			 Nottinghamshire 127.6 133.3 127.8 132.5 136.9 141.4 
			 South Yorkshire 178.0 185.7 187.5 194.3 199.1 204.1 
			 Staffordshire 109.2 113.3 110.3 114.3 117.4 120.6 
			 Suffolk 66.0 68.5 65.2 67.6 69.2 71.0 
			 Surrey 88.2 91.5 93.6 97.0 99.3 101.8 
			 Sussex 158.1 164.0 156.1 161.7 165.7 169.8 
			 Thames Valley 212.6 220.6 217.9 225.9 231.9 238.2 
			 Warwickshire 49.8 51.8 49.7 51.5 52.8 54.1 
			 West Mercia 107.7 111.8 112.0 116.0 118.9 121.8 
			 West Midlands 399.3 426.5 433.6 450.2 468.0 486.1 
			 West Yorkshire 298.9 313.6 306.2 317.6 328.2 339.2 
			 Wiltshire 60.6 62.9 59.9 62.0 63.6 65.2 
			  Notes: 1. All figures are rounded to the nearest £100,000. Grant as calculated under the Local Government Finance Report (England). This includes the Metropolitan Special Payment, and the effect of floors and scaling. 2. From 2006-07 funding for pensions and security funding became specific grants, and no longer part of general grant. 3. Figures for the City of London are excluded because these are allocated to the Common Council of the City of London as a whole in respect of all its functions. The city is grouped with education authorities for floors and scaling purposes.

Prosecutions: Greater London

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of serious crimes reported to the police led to prosecutions in each London borough in the last 12 months.

Alan Campbell: Information is not available in the form requested. The Home Office collects statistics on the number of offences recorded by the police and the method of detection where appropriate. One of the methods of detection is 'charge/summons' but there is no way of establishing how many recorded offences actually led to a prosecution. Data specifically on defendants proceeded against is collected by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform in the Ministry of Justice.

Speed Limits: Fines

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drivers were fined for speeding in each police force area in 2008; and how much was paid in fines for such offences.

Alan Campbell: The number of magistrates courts imposed fines for speed limit offences by police force area in England and Wales for 2007 are given in the following table. Court proceedings data for 2008 are scheduled to be published in the autumn of 2009.
	It is not possible to identify separately the payment rate of fines arising from speeding offences. The latest enforcement rate for all financial penalties imposed by the courts is 85 per cent for the period April-December 2008.
	In addition to court fines, police officers have the power to issue fixed penalty notices under section 54 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 for speeding offences. The decision as to whether to issue a fixed penalty notice is a matter for the police. Currently the amount payable for a fixed penalty notice for speeding is £60.
	Information on the number of fixed penalty notices issued in 2006 (latest available) broken down by police force area is provided in table 2. Data for 2007 are scheduled to be published in April 2009 with 2008 data to be announced.
	
		
			  Table 1: Number of magistrates courts imposed fines( 1 ) for speed limit offences( 2)  by police force area, England and Wales, 2007( 3, 4) 
			  Police force area  Number of fines( 1) 
			 Avon and Somerset 5,761 
			 Bedfordshire 4,238 
			 Cambridgeshire 4,181 
			 Cheshire 3,136 
			 Cleveland 1,194 
			 Cumbria 2,470 
			 Derbyshire 2,846 
			 Devon and Cornwall 3,940 
			 Dorset 2,340 
			 Durham 650 
			 Essex 7,247 
			 Gloucestershire 1,111 
			 Greater Manchester 4,521 
			 Hampshire 4,789 
			 Hertfordshire 2,525 
			 Humberside 2,182 
			 Kent 3,181 
			 Lancashire 7,463 
			 Leicestershire 1,802 
			 Lincolnshire 3,800 
			 London, city of 460 
			 Merseyside 3,010 
			 Metropolitan police 5,882 
			 Norfolk 2,669 
			 Northamptonshire 2,919 
			 Northumbria 3,570 
			 North Yorkshire 2,004 
			 Nottinghamshire 3,387 
			 South Yorkshire 4,167 
			 Staffordshire 4,540 
			 Suffolk 3,401 
			 Surrey 3,514 
			 Sussex 3,965 
			 Thames Valley 5,883 
			 Warwickshire 1,340 
			 West Mercia 2,651 
			 West Midlands 4,652 
			 West Yorkshire 5,638 
			 Wiltshire 5,005 
			 Dyfed Powys 945 
			 Gwent 1,125 
			 North Wales 4,345 
			 South Wales 2,394 
			 Total England and Wales 146,843 
			 (1) Magistrates courts data only. Fines given at the Crown court total nationally (England and Wales) less than 10 each year. (2) Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 ss. 16, 81, 84, 86, 88 & 89; Motor Vehicles (Speed Limit on Motorways) Regs. 1973; Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1926 - byelaws made thereunder. (3) It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. (4) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.  Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Evidence and Analysis unit. [Ref; IOS 98-09] 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: Fixed penalty notices issued( 1)  for speed limit offences( 2)  by police force area, England and Wales 2006 
			  Police force area  Number 
			 Avon and Somerset 52,606 
			 Bedfordshire 48,407 
			 Cambridgeshire 20,502 
			 Cheshire 28,570 
			 Cleveland 19,044 
			 Cumbria 32,023 
			 Derbyshire 31,484 
			 Devon and Cornwall 42,467 
			 Dorset 51,599 
			 Durham 2,817 
			 Essex 60,705 
			 Gloucestershire 13,406 
			 Greater Manchester 60,282 
			 Hampshire 49,404 
			 Hertfordshire 81,805 
			 Humberside 36,718 
			 Kent 47,179 
			 Lancashire 57,658 
			 Leicestershire 24,605 
			 Lincolnshire 25,750 
			 London, City of 5,089 
			 Merseyside 33,049 
			 Metropolitan 102,482 
			 Norfolk 24,985 
			 North Yorkshire 42,242 
			 Northamptonshire 51,880 
			 Northumbria 5,256 
			 Nottinghamshire 42,916 
			 South Yorkshire 51,462 
			 Staffordshire 50,823 
			 Suffolk 34,442 
			 Surrey 39,520 
			 Sussex 48,627 
			 Thames Valley 137,312 
			 Warwickshire 30,316 
			 West Mercia 46,213 
			 West Midlands 44,497 
			 West Yorkshire 49,528 
			 Wiltshire 51,458 
			 Dyfed Powys 1,054 
			 Gwent 531 
			 North Wales 59,491 
			 South Wales 33,208 
			 England and Wales 1,773,412 
			 (1) Only covers notices paid where there is no further action. (2) Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and the Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits on Motorways) Regulations 1973. (3) Revised since original publication.  Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Bovine Tuberculosis

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many  (a) cattle infected by bovine tuberculosis and  (b) calves born to cows infected by bovine tuberculosis have been slaughtered in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and how much was paid in compensation to their owners.

Jane Kennedy: The following table shows the number of cattle slaughtered under bovine tuberculosis (TB) control measures either as test reactors or direct contacts, and the amount of compensation paid, in England, in the last 10 years.
	Data on the number of calves slaughtered because they were born to cows affected by TB is not centrally collated in electronic format and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	
		
			   Number of cattle slaughtered( 1)  Compensation paid( 2)  (£ million) 
			 2007 19,794 15.2 
			 2006 16,007 18.1 
			 2005 23,135 32.1 
			 2004 17,306 23.1 
			 2003 17,551 25.2 
			 2002 18,443 20.8 
			 2001 4,438 4.6 
			 2000 7,190 5.7 
			 1999 5,580 3.2 
			 1998 5,027 3.6 
			 (1) Data regarding the number of cattle slaughtered as test reactors or direct contacts are taken from the Animal Health Database (Vetnet). Data for 2006-07 are provisional and subject to change as more data become available and as a result of data validation and cleansing. (2) Compensation includes payments to farmers for 'reactors' and 'direct contact' animals which are compulsorily slaughtered. For 1999 onwards this data has been taken from the DEFRA Oracle Financial System. 1998 data are drawn from the 1998 report of the Chief Veterinary Officer and are not directly comparable to later years.

Departmental Data Protection

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make it his policy for his Department to sign the Information Commissioner's Personal Information Promise.

Huw Irranca-Davies: The Government welcome the promise as a commendable initiative to raise awareness of the importance of effective data protection safeguards, particularly for those organisations with no similar commitments already in
	place.
	The Government take data protection very seriously. Following the Cabinet Office review of data handling procedures in Government, departments have implemented a raft of measures to improve data security.
	The Ministry of Justice is considering actively with the ICO how the promise might add additional value to those measures we have already signed up to. These include the information charters, the recommendations of the data handling review and the Thomas/Walport review and, of course, our legal obligations under the Data Protection Act and other legislation and regulations.

Departmental Sick Leave

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many staff in his Department were recorded as having been on sick leave for over 12 months on 31 December in each of the last five years.

Huw Irranca-Davies: The information requested for the core Department is as follows:
	
		
			   Number 
			 2006 1 
			 2007 4 
			 2008 2 
		
	
	Information for the Executive agencies and for earlier years could be provided only by incurring disproportionate cost.
	DEFRA's strategy for managing employee sickness absence over 12 months is to ensure that individuals receive necessary occupational health interventions. Their managers also receive timely medical and human resources advice and information. Employees are further supported in returning to work by undertaking a structured programme of recuperative duties, agreed with their manager and the occupational health service. This helps them return to full working hours and duties as quickly as possible.

Sewers: Fats

Howard Stoate: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  if his Department will introduce to require commercial hot food premises to have a grease control system to prevent the entry of fats, oils and greases into the sewerage system;
	(2)  what steps his Department and its associated public bodies are taking to prevent the discharge of fats, oils and greases into the sewerage system from commercial hot food premises; and if he will make a statement;
	(3)  what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of local voluntary schemes for installing control measures in commercial hot food premises as a means of preventing the discharge of fats, oils and greases into the sewerage system.

Iain Wright: I have been asked to reply.
	There is a general requirement in building regulations, and more generally other public health legislation, that drains should be constructed in such a way as to minimise the risk of blockage. Grease from hot food premises is acknowledged as a significant cause of drain blockages. Drainage is dealt with in part H of the Building Regulations and when the guidance was comprehensively revised in 2002 additional guidance was added about the provision of grease control measures to hot food premises. Where drains malfunction, building legislation provides local authorise with enforcement powers to ensure that the problem is remedied.
	In order to test the effectiveness of the above measure my department was party to a joint research project with the water industry. The outcome of this research has enabled water companies and local authorities to be more confident in their enforcement measures and has enabled some pilot projects to deal with some particularly troublesome cases and bring them to a satisfactory conclusion.

Departmental Art Works

Francis Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 26 January 2009,  Official Report, column 54W, on departmental art works, what the  (a) title,  (b) artist and  (c) Government Art Collection reference number is of each Government Art Collection item reported as stolen in each year since 1997-98.

Barbara Follett: The following Government art collection works have been stolen since 1997-98:
	
		
			  Title  Artist  Last known location  Government art collection reference number 
			 Lake Landscape George Arnald Ambassador's temporary Residence, Buenos Aires, between 23 and 30 August 2001, presumed stolen. GAC7462 
			 St. James's Park and Banqueting House Anthony Highmore Ambassador's temporary Residence, Buenos Aires, between 23 and 30 August 2001, presumed stolen GAC7963 
			 Sir Woodbine Parish (1796-1882) after Thomas Phillips Ambassador's temporary Residence, Buenos Aires, between 23 and 30 August 2001, presumed stolen. GAC1328 
			 Offering to Jupiter Michele Rocca Ambassador's temporary Residence, Buenos Aires, between 23 and 30 August 2001, presumed stolen. GAC2298 
			 Landscape Edward Williams Ambassador's temporary Residence, Buenos Aires, between 23 and 30 August 2001, presumed stolen. GAC2703 
			 Sir William Chambers Francis Cotes Stolen from the Somerset House Trust, Somerset House, London, in February 2008 and recovered by the police in September 2008. GAC0/252 
			 Shipping 1821 J.T. Serres Stolen from the Somerset House Trust, Somerset House, London, in February 2008 and recovered by the police in September 2008. GAC3158

Departmental Public Bodies

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 1 July 2008,  Official Report, column 880W, on Departmental non-departmental public bodies, how many times bodies for which his Department is responsible asked  (a) his Department and  (b) the Treasury to approve (i) capital projects of £6 million and above, (ii) gifts and non-statutory contingent liabilities of £100,000 and above, (iii) spending which exceeded limits set out in the relevant financial memoranda and (iv) spending which could have potentially set an expensive precedent, caused repercussions for others or which was novel or contentious in each of the last three years.

Andy Burnham: A survey of the last three financial years to date has indicated that my Department's non-departmental public bodies made the following requests, which are set out in the following tables. This may not be a complete list, however further information can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	
		
			  (a) Requests for which DCMS approval is required 
			   Spending which exceeded limits set out in the relevant financial memoranda 
			 2006-07 3 
			 2007-08 2 
			 2008-09 (to date) 5 
		
	
	
		
			  (b) Requests for which HM Treasury approval is required 
			   2006-07  2007-08  2008-09( 1) 
			 Capital projects of £6 million and above 5 5 4 
			 Spending which exceeded limits set out in the relevant financial memoranda 0 0 1 
			 Gifts and non-statutory contingent liabilities of £100,000 and above 0 0 0 
			 Spending which could have potentially set an expensive precedent, caused repercussions for others or which was novel and contentious 21 12 24 
			 (1) To date.

Departmental Pay

Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister for the Olympics how much has been spent by her Office on staff reward and recognition schemes in each year since its inception.

Tessa Jowell: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office (Mr. Watson) to him on 24 February 2009,  Official Report, column 578W.

Abortion

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information his Department holds on estimates by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities on the number of people who died as a result of illegal abortions in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: I have been asked to reply.
	In 2007 the World Health Organisation (WHO) published estimates, on behalf of all UN agencies, of the incidence of unsafe abortion and associated deaths for the year 2003. This report which includes detailed information on the methodology used in calculating estimates can be found on the WHO web-site:
	http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/unsafe abortion/
	Given the clandestine nature of abortion in many settings and the difficulties in collecting data, it is likely that the true levels of unsafe abortion and related mortality are higher than estimated.
	Worldwide an estimated 19-20 million unsafe abortions are estimated to occur each year. Millions of women and girls suffer complications following unsafe abortion and around 67,000 die as a result of these complications. Most of these abortions, complications and deaths could be prevented if people who wished to had access to family planning and if abortion services had been legally available and affordable everywhere. Progress to achieve Millennium Development Goal number five, Improve Maternal Health, cannot be made unless we are prepared to do something to reduce the death and disability caused by unsafe abortion.

Birtukan Mideksa

Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether his Department has made representations to the government of Ethiopia on the detention of Birtukan Mideksa; and if he will make a statement.

Gillian Merron: We have raised the detention of Birtukan Midekssa with the Ethiopian authorities on a number of occasions since her arrest on 29 December 2008. On 2 February 2009 my noble Friend the Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, the right hon. Lord Malloch-Brown did so with the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, pointing out the potential damage to Ethiopia's image of imprisoning an opposition leader politician.
	We will continue to urge the Ethiopian government to resolve this issue quickly.

Family Planning

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports his Department has received on coercive family planning policies in other countries; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: I have been asked to reply.
	The Department for International Development (DFID) does not hold records on reports of coercive family planning overseas.
	The UK government's policy on population and sexual and reproductive health in the developing world is about providing choice, not coercion. Couples and individuals should be able to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children, and have access to the information and services to be able to do so. DFID actively works to promote and uphold the principals of free and informed choice as set out in at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994.

Roy Bennett

Andrew MacKinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to seek the release of Roy Bennett, designated Deputy Minister of Agriculture on the National Unity Government of Zimbabwe to  (a) the government of Zimbabwe,  (b) other states in the region and  (c) international organisations; and if he will make a statement.

Gillian Merron: My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary in his statement of 11 February 2009 called for the immediate release of all political detainees. Our officials made clear to the Zimbabwean embassy in London our concerns about detainees on 16 February 2009 including Roy Bennett.
	The Southern African Development Community (SADC) brokered the power-sharing agreement, and has responsibility for supporting its implementation. We will continue to work closely with SADC, EU partners and the international community to capitalise on this opportunity to promote reform and human rights in Zimbabwe.
	The statement made by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary on 11 February
	2009 is available for viewing at the following internet address:
	http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view= PressS&id=13462857

Sri Lanka: Armed Conflict

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has had recent discussions with representatives of the Sri Lankan government on  (a) the prevention of civilian casualties and  (b) protection for displaced people in Sri Lanka.

Bill Rammell: When my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary telephoned President Rajapakse on 30 January 2009, they discussed the humanitarian situation. He made clear our concerns over the civilians caught up in the fighting in northern Sri Lanka.
	In a statement on 2 February 2009, which is available for viewing on the internet at:
	http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view= PressS&id=13166258,
	he urged both the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tamil of Tigers Eelam to respond appropriately to the deteriorating humanitarian situation, in particular by allowing the wounded to receive medical treatment; civilians to leave the conflict area; and unrestricted access for humanitarian agencies.
	We continue to raise these issues with the Sri Lankan Government at the highest level.

Terrorism: Finance

Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the Prime Minister's Statement of 14 November 2007,  Official Report, columns 667-72, on national security, what the breakdown is of the £400 million to be spent to tackle radicalisation and promote understanding overseas in each of the next three years by each Government department involved; and if he will make a statement.

Bill Rammell: The actual figure invested through Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), British Council and the Department for International Development (DFID) to tackle radicalisation and promote understanding overseas during the period 2008-11 is approximately £386 million.
	Working with partner Departments, the FCO leads on co-ordinating HMG PREVENT activity overseas, including prioritisation of funding against agreed objectives. The individual Departments' contributions over the three year period are approximately:
	FCO—£80 million
	DFID—£300 million (exact sum will be determined by assessment of the underlying drivers of poverty, exclusion and radicalisation in relevant countries)
	British Council—£6 million

Turkey: Kurds

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with his  (a) Turkish and  (b) Iraqi counterpart on the situation of Kurdish people in (i) Turkey and (ii) Iraq in the last 12 months.

Bill Rammell: Iraq's and in particular the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) relationship with Turkey has greatly improved over recent months and continues to progress positively. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has raised with Turkish Foreign Minister Mr. Babacan, the issues faced by the Kurdish population in Turkey's south-east, in the context of its fight against terrorism. We have strongly encouraged an improvement in dialogue between Turkey and the KRG authorities to reach a co-ordinated approach to address the complex socio-economic issues of Turkey's south-east region. The Turkish Government has announced a comprehensive package to address these.
	During his recent visit to Iraq and on previous meetings with the Iraqi leadership, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary also discussed the continuing efforts of reconciliation among the various communities within Iraq, including the Kurdish population. We continue to encourage both Arab and Kurdish leadership in Iraq to overcome their differences and compromise on issues of national importance.

Written Questions: Government Responses

Andrew Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he plans to respond to Question 253469, tabled by the hon. Member for Hendon on 27 January 2009 for named day answer on 2 February 2009, on casualties from fighting in Sri Lanka.

Gillian Merron: Question 253497 was answered on 26 February 2009,  Official Report, column 954W.

Child Care Vouchers: Self-employed

Maria Miller: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department is taking to encourage the use of childcare vouchers by people who are self-employed.

Stephen Timms: Child care vouchers are not available to self-employed persons. Employer supported child care is reliant upon arrangements made between an employer and employee. Self employed persons can receive assistance with child care costs via the child care element of working tax credits, subject to the level of household income.

Members: Correspondence

Michael Penning: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead of 12 December 2008 on economic regulation and small businesses.

Angela Eagle: I have replied to the hon. Member.

Money Laundering

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in respect of what provisions of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 the management and administration of is outsourced; what controls there are on companies to ensure the protection of data collected under the Regulations; and if he will make a statement.

Ian Pearson: Certain businesses ("relevant persons") are regulated under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007. Those Regulations transposed the Third Money Laundering Directive into UK law. Relevant persons may, in discharging the legal requirements, source a range of services from third parties.
	Firms can, and typically do, subcontract a range of functions, buying in either expertise or access to information from specialist sources. Large retail firms also use information from consumer credit bureaux to help automate their customer identification and verification checks.
	Relevant persons may rely on certain other regulated persons to carry out customer due diligence. In all of these cases relevant persons remain legally liable for the discharge of the responsibilities placed on them under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007.
	Personal data obtained by relevant persons as a result of checks made under the Regulations is subject to the Data Protection Act, which places a number of requirements on those persons to safeguard that data. This means, for example, that businesses have to keep personal information secure, and ensure it is fairly and lawfully processed.
	Regulators (including professional bodies) will also apply a variety of other safeguards to relevant persons who they supervise for money laundering and other purposes, in order to monitor compliance with these requirements and relevant guidance.

Mortgages

Lorely Burt: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
	(1)  what assessment he has made of  (a) the contribution of UK non-bank lenders to the mortgage market and  (b) the effect on levels of mortgage lending of the levels of activity of UK non-bank and specialist lenders in the last 12 months;
	(2)  what response he has made to the recommendation in the Crosby Report on mortgage finance markets for the introduction of a new guarantee scheme for residential mortgage-backed securities available to banks, building societies and specialist lenders;
	(3)  how many meetings he has had with representatives of  (a) banks,  (b) building societies and  (c) non-bank lenders to discuss measures to stimulate mortgage lending in the last three months;
	(4)  what assessment he has made of the effects of the Government's lending support initiatives on  (a) competition among banks, building societies and non-banks in the mortgage market and  (b) the availability of mortgage finance to consumers in the last 12 months;
	(5)  what steps his Department is taking to encourage a competitive and diverse market for mortgage finance;
	(6)  pursuant to the statement of 19 January 2009,  Official Report, columns 483-86, on financial markets, what recent steps his Department has taken to support lending by the non-bank sector;
	(7)  pursuant to the statement of 19 January 2009,  Official Report, columns 483-86, on financial markets, which of the lending support facilities announced will be open to non-bank lenders.

Ian Pearson: The Bank of England publishes statistics relating to lending, which are available at:
	http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/index.htm
	These statistics include data on the amount of lending by UK banks, building societies and other lenders.
	On 19 January, the Government announced measures designed to reinforce the stability of the financial system, to increase confidence and capacity to lend, and in turn to support the recovery of the economy. These build on measures announced on 8 October last year.
	This included a guarantee scheme for asset-backed securities to help improve lenders' access to wholesale funding markets. The scheme will commence in April 2009 subject to state aid approval. Further details will be announced by the Debt Management Office in due course.
	These measures have raised confidence in the banking sector and helped to stabilise financial markets. This is an essential condition for lenders to develop greater confidence to lend in the future to creditworthy businesses, home owners and consumers.
	The 2008 pre-Budget report announced that alongside its normal annual plan, the OFT will set out a specific financial services plan.
	Ministers and officials meet with a wide range of representatives from the financial services sector including banks, building societies and non-bank lenders.

Valuation Office: Standards

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 6 May 2008,  Official Report, column 829W, on the Valuation Office: standards, if he will place in the Library a copy of the updated version of the customer services manual.

Stephen Timms: The further updated version of the agency's customer service manual is available on the agency's website at:
	http://www.voa.gov.uk/instructions/chapters/Customer-Service-Manual/Frame.htm

Supermarkets: Complaints

Tim Farron: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of a supermarket ombudsman in each of the next six years.

Gareth Thomas: The Department has made no such assessment. The Competition Commission (CC) is continuing to pursue implementation of all aspects of the Groceries Supply Code of Practice. Should no voluntary agreement be possible and the matter be referred to Government, we would need to consider the costs and benefits of a range of options before deciding on a way forward.
	However, in its report the CC produced some initial annual costs associated with this remedy which were in the region of £3.9 to £5.4 million comprising £3 million retailer costs and £0.9 to £2.4 million costs for the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). There may be additional costs incurred by the Ombudsman driven largely by the number of disputes.

Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations

Andrew Robathan: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what proportion of RAF passenger carrying flights from Brize Norton to Afghanistan have left more than three hours after the scheduled time of departure since 1 January 2009; and if he will make a statement.

Bob Ainsworth: 10 passenger flights from Brize Norton to Afghanistan were delayed for more than three hours between 2 January 2009 and 26 February 2009. This figure represents 21 per cent. of the total numbers of flights.
	Severe winter weather conditions were a factor in many of the delays. Additionally, minor technical faults, which were quickly corrected, lead to some flights losing their departure or arrival slot, which had a disproportionate effect on departure times.

Armed Forces: Compensation

Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2008,  Official Report, column 328W, of the 38 personnel who were very seriously injured in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007 and whose claim for compensation had been registered by 13 November 2008, what the  (a) 10th,  (b) 25th,  (c) 50th,  (d) 75th and  (e) 90th percentiles were for the amount awarded in respect of the claims that were settled by 13 January 2009; and how many of the claims had been determined by 13 January 2009.

Kevan Jones: Unfortunately Defence Analytical Services and Advice are currently unable to provide information on compensation amounts paid out to personnel that were very seriously injured in Afghanistan during 2006 and 2007. However, I will write to the hon. Member when the information is available.
	Of the 38 personnel who were very seriously injured in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, and whose claim for compensation had been registered by 13 November 2008, all have had their claims determined as at 13 January 2009.
	 Letter from Kevan Jones, dated 3 March 2009:
	I undertook to write to you in answer to your Parliamentary Question on 3 February, (Official Report, column 111W) about the 42 personnel who were seriously injured in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007 and whose claim for compensation had been registered by 13 November 2008. You requested information on the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90(th) percentiles for the amounts awarded in respect of the claims that were settled by 13 January 2009; and how many of the claims had been determined by 13 January 2009.
	Of the 42 personnel who were seriously injured in Afghanistan during 2006 and 2007, and whose claim for compensation had been registered by 13 November 2008, 40 have had their claims determined as at 13 January 2009.
	Table 1 presents the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles for total lump sum payments awarded to the 40 personnel with a determined claim.
	
		
			  Table 1: Lump sum amounts awarded to seriously injured personnel, percentiles( 1) 
			   £ 
			 10th percentile 8,000 
			 25th percentile 13,000 
			 50th percentile 20,000 
			 75th percentile 67,000 
			 90th percentile 102,000 
			 (1) Figures are rounded to nearest £1,000 
		
	
	In addition to a lump sum award, two personnel that had left Service were also in receipt of an ongoing tax-free, index-linked Guaranteed Income Payment (GIP) as at 13 January 2009. Rounded to the nearest one thousand, the total GIP paid to these personnel over the next forty years will average £503,000.

Armed Forces: Compensation

Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2008,  Official Report, columns 327-8W, of the 42 personnel who were seriously injured in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007 and whose claim for compensation had been registered by 13 November 2008, what the  (a) 10th,  (b) 25th,  (c) 50th,  (d) 75th and  (e) 90th percentiles were for the amount awarded in respect of the claims that were settled by 13 January 2009; and how many of the claims had been determined by 13 January 2009.

Kevan Jones: Unfortunately Defence Analytical Services and Advice are currently unable to provide information on compensation amounts paid out to personnel that were seriously injured in Afghanistan during 2006 and 2007. However, we will write to the hon. Member when the information is available.
	Of the 42 personnel who were seriously injured in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, and whose claim for compensation had been registered by 13 November 2008, 40 have had their claims determined as at 13 January 2009.
	 Letter from Kevan Jones, dated 3 March 2009:
	I undertook to write to you in answer to your Parliamentary Question on 3 February, (Official Report, column 110W) about the 38 personnel who were very seriously injured in Afghanistan-in-2006-and 2007 and whose claim for compensation had been registered by 13 November 2008. You requested information on the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles for the amounts awarded in respect of the claims that were settled by 13 January 2009; and how many of the claims had been determined by 13 January 2009.
	Of the 38 personnel who were very seriously injured in Afghanistan during 2006 and 2007, and whose claim for compensation had been registered by 13 November 2008, all have had their claims determined as at 13 January 2009.
	Table 1 presents the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles for total lump sum payments awarded.
	
		
			  Table 1: Lump sum amounts awarded to very seriously injured personnel, percentiles( 1) 
			   £ 
			 10th percentile 13,000 
			 25th percentile 34,000 
			 50th percentile 118,000 
			 75th percentile 245,000 
			 90th percentile 396,000 
			 (1) Figures are rounded to nearest £1,000 
		
	
	In addition to a lump sum award, four personnel that had left Service were also in receipt of an ongoing tax-free, index-linked Guaranteed Income Payment (GIP) as at 13 January 2009. Rounded to the nearest one thousand, the total GIP paid to these personnel over the next forty years will average £623,000.

Armed Forces: Mental Illness

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  how many and what percentage of armed forces personnel who have served in  (a) Iraq and  (b) Afghanistan have been diagnosed with a mental health condition;
	(2)  how many service personnel who have served in  (a) Afghanistan since 2001 and  (b) Iraq since 2003 his Department has recorded as having a mental health condition of each type in each year since 2001.

Kevan Jones: holding  answer  3 February 2009
	Since July 2007 the Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) organisation has reported on the Psychiatric Morbidity of the UK armed forces. Quarterly reports for the whole of 2007 are available to view both in the Library of the House and on the DASA website at:
	www.dasa.mod.uk
	Equivalent verified data prior to 2007 is not available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	The morbidity report shows the number of new attendances at military Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs) during each quarter and the results of the initial mental health assessment. The figures shown in the following table are extracted from the morbidity report and show initial assessments of mental disorder broken down by operational deployment for the calendar year 2007.
	
		
			  I nitial mental disorder assessments in 2007: ICD-10 groupings by deployment 
			   Deployment:  theatres of operation  
			   Iraq and/or Afghanistan( 1)  Iraq  Afghanistan( 1)  Not known( 2) 
			  ICD-10 description  Patients seen  Patients seen  Patients seen  Patients seen 
			 All patients seen 2,562 2,176 464 271 
			  
			 All patients assessed with a mental disorder 1,898 1,725 375 155 
			  
			 Psychoactive substance use 216 198 38 13 
			 disorders due to alcohol(3) 150 140 27 8 
			 Mood disorders 395 365 57 34 
			 Depressive episode 314 288 51 33 
			 Neurotic disorders 1,188 1,071 265 86 
			 PTSD 145 124 48 6 
			 Adjustment disorders 705 639 148 31 
			 Other mental and behavioural disorders 99 91 15 22 
			  
			 No mental disorder 501 451 89 116 
			 No assessment details 163 147 37 0 
			 (1) Does not include personnel deployed to Afghanistan during the period January 2003 to October 2005. (2) Records supplied without identifiers. (3) Data for disorders due to use of alcohol is not available for the period January—March 2007. 
		
	
	DASA's statistics show that the total number of new patients assessed with a mental health disorder during their first appointment at MOD's out-patient DCMHs during 2007 is 19.9 per 1,000 strength of the armed forces, or 1.99 per cent. This figure covers all patients, including those who had not deployed operationally. Of the 190,400 regular members of the armed forces in service on 1 January 2008, 56 per cent. had previously deployed on operations to Iraq, Afghanistan or both theatres.

Defence: Procurement

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the estimated cost of the Support Vehicle programme was on 31 March  (a) 2002,  (b) 2003,  (c) 2004,  (d) 2005,  (e) 2006,  (f) 2007 and  (g) 2008, broken down by (i) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (ii) indirect resource DEL and (iii) capital DEL.

Quentin Davies: The information requested is shown in the following table. The figures include the cost of the assessment, demonstration and manufacture phases. There are no records of support vehicle project costs prior to 2003.
	
		
			  £ million 
			   As at 31 March each year 
			   2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008 
			 Direct Resource DEL n/a 4 9 12 6 5 4 
			 Indirect Resource DEL n/a 0 0 0 0 0 0 
			 Capital DEL n/a 1392 1378 1350 1332 1258 1268 
			 Total n/a 1396 1387 1362 1338 1263 1272

Departmental Data Protection

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 2 February 2009 to the hon. Member for Chesterfield,  Official Report, column 872, on departmental data protection, in what format his Department records information on staff dismissal for loss of departmental property.

Kevan Jones: Central records have been held since 2002 of all civilian staff dismissals and the disciplinary cases which lead up to them. Cases are recorded electronically under general classification headings, but those are not sufficiently detailed to enable identification of cases specifically related to loss of property. More detail about each case is recorded as free text of varying length which can be individually examined and which would include more detail about the precise nature of the offence.

Detainees

Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his statement of 26 February 2009, whether officials in his Department had been informed in 2004 of the transfer of detainees to which he referred.

John Hutton: There is evidence that a piece of related correspondence from another Government Department was copied to an MOD official on 7 October 2004, some months after the transfer had taken place, although detailed searches have not found this document within MOD records and the individual in question has no recollection of it. I am satisfied that those officials within my Department who advised Ministers on these issues were unaware of the case and that they acted in good faith at all times.

Detainees

Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when officials in his Department first became aware that the answer given to the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr of 7 February 2006,  Official Report, column 1083W, on extraordinary rendition, was inaccurate.

John Hutton: The case of the two detainees transferred from Iraq to Afghanistan by the US outlined in my statement of 26 February, was brought to my attention on 1 December 2008, during the final stages of an MOD review of records of detentions. I directed that MOD officials conduct follow-up work to establish the facts and in doing so it became clear to them that inaccurate answers had been given to earlier questions in the House. This led to my statement on 26 February 2009.

Military Aircraft: Helicopters

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of  (a) the total helicopter fleet in service and  (b) the helicopter forward air fleet were fit for purpose in each year since 2001, broken down by service and type.

Quentin Davies: The percentages of the total helicopter fleet and the forward helicopter fleet which are fit for purpose are not recorded as a matter of course, and are not therefore available from 2001 in all cases.
	"In Service" has been taken to mean the Effective Fleet, which covers all aircraft barring those which are redundant, declared as surplus or awaiting disposal.
	"Forward Fleet" aircraft are those that are available to the Front Line Commands for operational and training purposes, including those that are classed as "short term unserviceable"; aircraft undergoing scheduled depth maintenance, or planned routine fleet maintenance are excluded.
	"Fit for Purpose" aircraft are those in the Forward Fleet considered capable of carrying out their planned missions on a given date.
	
		
			  Percentage 
			  Service and Helicopter  200- 02  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			  Royal Navy 
			  Merlin HM1 
			 Effective Fleet 20 16 17 10 24 29 29 29 
			 Forward Fleet 44 35 37 21 48 48 46 52 
			  Lynx Mk 3/8 
			 Effective Fleet 36 38 42 44 40 40 38 40 
			 Forward Fleet 56 56 60 66 62 58 55 61 
			  Sea King Mk2/7 
			 Effective Fleet — 35 38 55 45 47 44 45 
			 Forward Fleet — 75 69 67 62 58 54 61 
			  Sea King Mk5 
			 Effective Fleet 37 35 39 39 37 43 43 42 
			 Forward Fleet 70 65 65 66 56 59 59 57 
			  Sea King Mk 4 and 6c 
			 Effective Fleet — — — 45 41 38 36 38 
			 Forward Fleet — — — 59 59 55 52 55 
			  
			  Army 
			  Apache 
			 Effective Fleet — — — — 28 31 34 30 
			 Forward Fleet — — — — 54 54 50 40 
			  A109 
			 Effective Fleet — — — 75 75 75 75 75 
			 Forward Fleet — — — 75 75 75 75 75 
			  Gazelle 
			 Effective Fleet — — — 55 46 38 37 38 
			 Forward Fleet — — — 96 102 88 90 88 
			  Lynx Mk 7 and 9 
			 Effective Fleet — — — 38 41 40 36 39 
			 Forward Fleet — — — 59 60 64 61 66 
			  Royal Air Force 
			  Chinook 
			 Effective Fleet — — — 43 38 40 45 50 
			 Forward Fleet — — — 55 56 59 62 69 
			  Merlin Mk 3/3a 
			 Effective Fleet — — — 14 36 36 36 39 
			 Forward Fleet — — — 20 53 57 53 65 
			  Puma 
			 Effective Fleet — — — 44 44 44 38 45 
			 Forward Fleet — — — 64 69 72 68 74 
			  Sea King Mk 3/3a 
			 Effective Fleet — — — — — 36 36 32 
			 Forward Fleet — — — — — 53 53 47 
		
	
	Effective Fleet figures are as at 1 April of each year.
	Fit for Purpose and Forward Fleet figures are an average across each year.

Peacekeeping Operations

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  what the cost of operations in Iraq, broken down on the same basis as note 2.3 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2007-08, was in  (a) 2002-03 and  (b) 2003-04;
	(2)  what the cost of operations in Afghanistan, broken down on the same basis as note 2.3 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2007-08, was in each financial year from 2001-02 to 2003-04.

John Hutton: The costs for Afghanistan in 2001-02 were not compiled in the format now used in our annual reports and cannot be reproduced on the same basis. The major cost areas for that year were:
	
		
			   £ million 
			 Resource expenditure 187 
			 Capital expenditure 34 
			 Total 211 
		
	
	The breakdown of costs in 2002-03 and 2003-04 for Iraq and Afghanistan is:
	
		
			  £ million 
			   2002-03  2003-04 
			   Iraq  Afghanistan  Iraq  Afghanistan 
			 Service pay 30 17 196 10 
			 Civilian pay 5 12 18 1 
			 Infrastructure costs 53 8 75 5 
			 Stock consumption 170 33 115 4 
			 Equipment support costs 161 128 284 9 
			 Other costs and services 134 32 209 6 
			 Receipts and other income 3 (6) 9 1 
			 Total direct resource Del 556 224 906 36 
			 Stock Provisions/Write off 0 0 0 0 
			 Provisions (27) 8 (5) 8 
			 Depreciation 100 4 132 0 
			 Cost of capital 1 0 18 0 
			 Total indirect resource Del 74 12 145 0 
			 Total capital Del 218 75 260 10 
			 Total all DELs 848 311 1,311 46

Departmental Staff Surveys

Grant Shapps: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much the Cabinet Office spent on staff surveys in each of the last five years; and which company was contracted to conduct each such survey.

Tom Watson: The following table sets out Cabinet Office's contracted price on staff surveys in each of the last five years and which company were contracted to conduct each survey:
	
		
			  £ 
			   Spent on survey  Company contracted 
			 2008-09 13,226 ORC International 
			 2007-08 25,000 Towers Perrin ISR 
			 2006-07 15,505 ORC International 
			 2005-06 15, 120 ORC International 
			 2004-05 15,810 ORC International 
		
	
	The additional costs for the contract in 2007-08 reflected a change in methodology to provide more in-depth employee engagement analysis for the first time.
	In 2008-09, the Cabinet Office is participating in a pilot of a single civil service survey, alongside nine other Departments, resulting in significantly reduced costs for the Department.

Ministerial Policy Advisers: Public Relations

Francis Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 
	(1)  how many Government special advisers there were whose primary role was in dealing with the media  (a) in 1997 and  (b) at the most recent date for which information is available;
	(2)  with reference to paragraph 72 of his Department's memorandum to the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications of 14 October 2008, who the 13 special advisers were in post at 17 September 2008 who were employed primarily in the area of communications;
	(3)  with reference to paragraph 72 of his Department's memorandum presented to the House of Lords Communications Select Committee inquiry into Government communication of 14 October 2008, how many special advisers were employed primarily in the area of communications in 1996.

Tom Watson: The Government are committed to publishing an annual statement on the names and cost of special advisers. Information for the financial year 2007-08 was published on 22 July 2008,  Official Report, column 99WS. Information for 2008-09 will be published as soon as it is ready after the end of the financial year.
	The most up to date information held in respect of special advisers who are employed primarily in the area of communications remains as set out in the Cabinet Office memorandum to the House of Lords Select Committee in October 2008. Information on the numbers of special advisers employed primarily in the area of communications in 1996 and 1997 is not held centrally.

Abortion

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how many women were referred by National Health Service GPs to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service for an abortion in the last period for which figures are available, broken down by the  (a) age of the woman,  (b) length of gestation of the pregnancy at referral and  (c) region of residence of the woman;
	(2)  how many early medical abortions were performed by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service at the request of the National Health Service in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by the  (a) age of the woman,  (b) length of gestation of the pregnancy and  (c) region of residence of the woman.

Dawn Primarolo: Information on referrals for abortion by general practitioners is not collected.
	The information requested on national health service funded abortions is shown in the following tables.
	
		
			  Total NHS funded abortions at British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) clinics, England , 2007 
			  Age  Number 
			 Under 15 281 
			 15 756 
			 16 1,483 
			 17 2,132 
			 18 2,652 
			 19 2,865 
			 20 2,772 
			 21 2,606 
			 22 2,561 
			 23 2,372 
			 24 2,119 
			 25 2,011 
			 26 1,861 
			 27 1,738 
			 28 1,469 
			 29 1,319 
			 30 1,157 
			 31 1,146 
			 32 1,137 
			 33 1,008 
			 34 934 
			 35 859 
			 36 856 
			 37 744 
			 38 683 
			 39 577 
			 40 464 
			 41 353 
			 42 281 
			 43 193 
			 44 119 
			 45 and over 139 
			 Total 41,647 
		
	
	
		
			  Gestation weeks  Number 
			 5 and under 1,571 
			 6 3,906 
			 7 8,617 
			 8 7.934 
			 9 4,616 
			 10 3,562 
			 11 2,368 
			 12 2,235 
			 13 1,597 
			 14 1,158 
			 15 789 
			 16 642 
			 17 572 
			 18 487 
			 19 394 
			 20 413 
			 21 334 
			 22 254 
			 23 198 
			 Total 41,647 
		
	
	
		
			  Strategic health authority of residence of woman , 2007 
			   Number 
			 East of England 1,285 
			 East Midlands 1,972 
			 London 8,976 
			 North West 3,367 
			 North East 45 
			 South Central 4,719 
			 South East Coast 4,753 
			 South West 3,627 
			 West Midlands 9,841 
			 Yorkshire and The Humber 3,062 
			 Total 41,647 
		
	
	
		
			  Total NHS funded  medical abortions performed under nine weeks gestation at BPAS clinics,  England , 2007 
			  Age  Number 
			 Under 16 136 
			 Under 18 754 
			 18 514 
			 19 581 
			 20 590 
			 21 580 
			 22 625 
			 23 579 
			 24 528 
			 25 513 
			 26 472 
			 27 451 
			 28 390 
			 29 337 
			 30 338 
			 31 276 
			 32 311 
			 33 290 
			 34 287 
			 35 and over 1,506 
			 Total 9,922 
		
	
	
		
			  Gestation weeks  Number 
			 5 and under 1,456 
			 6 3,014 
			 7 3,295 
			 8 2,157 
			 Total 9,922 
		
	
	
		
			  Strategic health authority of residence of woman , 2007 
			   Number 
			 East of England (1)— 
			 East Midlands 326 
			 London 1,706 
			 North West 349 
			 North East (1)— 
			 South Central 844 
			 South East Coast 1,407 
			 South West 1,013 
			 West Midlands 2,811 
			 Yorkshire and The Humber 1,143 
			 Total 9,922 
			 (1) Suppressed totals less than 10 (between 0 and 9) and values where a presented total would reveal a suppressed value.

Contraceptives: Finance

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  if he will publish the quarterly strategic health authority progress reports on allocation of the £26.8 million funding for contraception;
	(2)  how much of the £26.8 million spending on contraception announced by his Department on 6 February 2008 is allocated to each  (a) primary care trust and  (b) strategic health authority; and whether any of the funding was re-allocated from other budgets;
	(3)  pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2009,  Official Report, columns 1934-40W, on teenage pregnancy, if he will assess the effectiveness of programmes intended to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies since 2005.

Dawn Primarolo: We expect to have a standard format that provides sufficient information without over-burdening the NHS for the next set of returns due in March. Once we have agreed the standard reporting arrangements, we will place the reports in the Library as they become available.
	Of the £26.8 million additional contraceptive funding £12.8 million was included in the Primary Care Trusts' (PCT) overall general allocations. These are not ring-fenced. PCTs have the flexibility to decide how best to use their resources in delivering the national requirements and local priorities as set out in the NHS Operating Framework.
	The 10 strategic health authorities (SHAs) were allocated funding based on a formula of a flat £0.5million each then an allocation based on the weighted capitation formula used for the PCT allocations. The individual SHA allocations are set out in the following table:
	
		
			  Strategic  health authority 
			   £000 
			 North East Strategic Health Authority 780,000 
			 North West Strategic Health Authority 1,210,000 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority 1,010,00 
			 East Midlands Strategic Health Authority 900,000 
			 West Midlands Strategic Health Authority 1,000,000 
			 East of England Strategic Health Authority 1,000,000 
			 London Strategic Health Authority 1,300,000 
			 South East Coast Strategic Health Authority 900,000 
			 South Central Strategic Health Authority 900,000 
			 South West Strategic Health Authority 1,000,000 
		
	
	£1 million was allocated to SHAs (£100,00.00 per SHA) for work with further education colleges to improve contraceptive services for students.
	£0.5 million was used for the development of a national contraception awareness campaign.
	£1.5 million was used to support the 'You're Welcome programme', to make health services more young-people friendly, particularly contraceptive services.
	£0.5 million was used to set up the 'Healthy Further Education Programme', which will put in place a framework to improve the contribution of colleges to health and well-being, with priority this year for sexual health.
	£0.5 million was used to support more schools to gain 'Healthy School Status', including satisfying the criteria for delivering good quality Sex and Relationship Education.
	None of the £26.8 million additional contraceptive funding was reallocated from any other budget.
	England's under-18 conception rate is 41.7 per 1,000 and has fallen by 10.7 per cent, since the launch of the teenage pregnancy strategy. The under-16 rate is 8.3 per 1,000 and has fallen by 6.4 per cent, over the same period.
	Statistics published on 26 February 2009 by the Office of National Statistics show that in 2007 the under-18 conception rate rose by 2.6 per cent. Despite the rise in national figures in 2007 the long-term trend is still downward.
	The success of the teenage pregnancy strategy relies on all local areas applying it effectively. However, there is still significant variation at a local level, with some areas achieving reductions of over 30 per cent. whereas in other areas, rates have increased.
	We have identified a range of factors that are in place in the areas where they have made most progress, which are either absent or being delivered less intensively in areas performing less well. These are highlighted in the document Teenage Pregnancy Next steps - guidance for Local Authorities and Primary Care trusts on effective delivery of local strategies a copy of which has been placed in the Library.
	We have asked all local areas to ensure that they take account of these key ingredients and to update their local strategies as necessary. In addition, the NHS was reminded of the importance of provision of the full range of contraception to reduce teenage pregnancy in the NHS Operating Framework for 2009-10. An additional £20.5 million has been allocated for 2009-10 to support this work.

Hospital Beds

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2009,  Official Report, column 2079W, on hospital beds, if he will make it his policy to collect and hold information from each NHS hospital trust on how many days each trust has been placed on its highest level of alert because of a shortage of beds; and if he will make a statement.

Ann Keen: It is not the Department's policy to collect and hold information from each national health service hospital trust on how many days each trust has been placed on its highest level of alert because of a shortage of beds. It is for individual trusts to ensure they have the necessary bed capacity to treat patients.

Hospitals: ICT

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how many hospitals are connected to the national NHS IT system;
	(2)  what timetable has been set for hospital trusts to introduce the national NHS IT system.

Ben Bradshaw: The NHS IT programme is delivering front-line systems and services that are providing major benefits for national health service organisations in England, staff and patients, enabling significant changes in the way the NHS operates, and delivering major system reform. All acute trusts have at least one system which has been delivered through the programme.
	As at the end of February 2009, a total of 146 patient administration systems had been deployed as part: of the programme to 45 acute, 24 mental health and 77 primary care trusts. Information on which of the organisations concerned include a hospital site, and which may have more than one hospital site, is not held centrally.
	It is not possible to provide comprehensive details of the future number, location and sequencing of future deployments. This is because meeting the needs and priorities of individual trusts that are maintaining normal business operations requires flexibility in deployment planning, and inevitably means that plans will always be subject to potential change. Detailed implementation planning became the responsibility of individual trusts and the chief executives of strategic health authorities from April 2007. Taking the country as a whole, however, as reported in the National Audit Office 16 May 2008 report on the programme, it is likely to be 2014-15 before all trusts have fully-deployed care records systems, though some should receive the final releases of the software in late 2009.

Lung Cancer: North West

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 5 February 2009,  Official Report, columns 1497-8W, on cancer, what steps his Department is taking  (a) to reduce the incidence of lung cancer and  (b) to reduce the incidence of smoking by young people under the age of 16 years in the North West.

Ann Keen: The cancer reform strategy, published in December 2007, sets out guidance to the local national health service on how to improve cancer prevention, speed up the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, reduce inequalities, improve the experience of people living with and beyond cancer, ensure care is delivered in the most appropriate settings and ensure patients can access effective new treatments quickly. It is for primary care trusts (PCTs) to use the funds made available to them and work in partnership with strategic health authorities, local services, cancer networks and other local stakeholders to deliver these aims. Information on the work being done in the north-west can be obtained from the individual PCTs directly.
	Through the cancer reform strategy's national awareness and early diagnosis initiative, the Department, in partnership with Cancer Research UK, is co-ordinating a programme to support local interventions to increase cancer symptom awareness, and encourage people to seek help early.
	'High Quality Care for All', the final report of the NHS next stage review, said that every PCT will commission comprehensive wellbeing and prevention services, in partnership with local authorities, with personalised services offered to meet the specific needs of their local populations. It stated that efforts must be focused on a number of key goals, including reducing smoking rates.
	Reducing smoking among young people is a priority for the Government. Much has already been achieved in this area, including raising the age of sale of tobacco products and legislation to strengthen sanctions available against retailers who persistently sell tobacco to children and young people. Smoking is also addressed in the national curriculum and through the healthy schools programme.
	Protecting children and young people from smoking was one of four key aspects of the Department's consultation on the future of tobacco control published on 31 May 2008. Responses to the consultation are informing the development of a new strategy on tobacco control, which will include action to continue to tackle the uptake of smoking by young people.
	The Government this year are taking forward tobacco control legislation intended to protect and support young people in the Health Bill. The Health Bill includes a prohibition on the display of tobacco products, which will help to eliminate the marketing of tobacco products, to which young people are susceptible. The Bill will also provide powers to restrict or ban the sale of tobacco from vending machines, removing a major source of tobacco for young people.
	Local stop smoking services are able to provide a range of support options to anyone wanting to quit smoking, including young people. Resources are also available that can be accessed by smokers direct on smoking cessation, these include the national health service 'gosmokefree' website and from the general NHS smoking helpline (0800 169 0169).

Maternity Services: Finance

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the tariff uplift breakdown for 2009-10, published by his Department on 5 February 2009, and pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2009,  Official Report, column 1378W, on maternity services: finance, under what tariff headings the additional funding his Department plans to provide for maternity services in 2009-10 is included.

Ann Keen: Additional funding for maternity services in 2009-10 is not included in the tariff uplift breakdown for 2009-10, as this is the general uplift applied to all tariff prices. Instead, money has been targeted at maternity services, including a £20 million uplift to the maternity out-patient attendance tariff.
	Further information on this funding can be found in paragraphs 20 and 21 of the "Payment by Results Guidance for 2009-10", which has been placed in the Library.

Medical Records: Data Protection

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS staff have accessed the NHS Spine without appropriate authorisation in each of the last three years.

Ben Bradshaw: Access to the national health service care record 'spine' is strictly controlled by the use of smartcards, which are only issued on proof of identity and residence. The smartcards contain role-based profiles that restrict access to patient information depending on the role performed.
	There are clear processes for NHS trusts to follow in the administration of smartcards and for adherence to information governance standards. However, legal responsibility for the secure handling and managing of patient data rests with individual NHS organisations.
	Details of which staff have been authorised by their employing organisation, and which staff have not been so authorised, are therefore held locally, not by the Department. The cost of collecting and maintaining this information centrally would be considerable and disproportionate to the benefit in doing so. However, there is no evidence that inappropriate access currently happens other than very exceptionally.

Mental Health Services: Restraint Techniques

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many times restraint was used on a mental health patient in each Strategic Health Authority area in each year since 1997; and on how many such occasions the incident was not logged within 24 hours.

Phil Hope: This information requested is not held centrally.

Patient Choice Schemes

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of appointments have been made using the choose and book system in each health trust in each month since the scheme was introduced.

Ben Bradshaw: Data on the percentage of appointments made to consultant-led out-patient appointments following a general practitioner (GP) referral using the Choose and Book system in each primary care trust (PCT) in each month since April 2006 is shown in the document, Percentage of GP referrals to first outpatient appointments made using Choose and Book, monthly by primary care trust, which has been placed in the Library.
	Prior to April 2006, the Department did not calculate utilisation at a primary care trust level.

Social Services: Finance

Roger Berry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1349W, on autism, what plans he has to ensure that individual budgets are effective for people with  (a) sensory impairments and  (b) autism;
	(2)  what steps he plans to take to ensure local authority resource allocation systems for individual budgets reflect the needs of people with  (a) sensory impairments,  (b) autism and  (c) complex needs.

Phil Hope: As part of the programme to transform adult social care, local authorities are expected to provide personal budgets to all adults eligible to receive social care over the period 2008-11. This will include people with autism and sensory impairments. From April 2009, we will be consulting on a new national strategy for autism. Local authorities will need to take into account any requirements arising from the strategy when providing personal budgets to people with autism.
	Practical guides issued by the Department to help local authorities develop resource allocation systems for personal budgets advise councils to consult advocacy groups and other groups representing disabled people and older people, and representatives of carers. The needs of all service users, including people with autism, sensory impairment and complex needs, should be reflected in the questions included in the self-assessment which forms the basis of the resource allocation system.

Community Orders

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has to inform the public about work being undertaken by convicted criminals serving community service orders.

David Hanson: Local probation areas promote the work they do locally with offenders serving community sentences and in particular in the case of Community Payback. Nationally, the Ministry of Justice are also working with the cross Government National Crime and Justice Group on developing communications that will include messages about Community Payback in local areas. Plans will be announced shortly.
	The Government are committed to increased public visibility and involvement in Community Payback so that local communities are aware of both offenders being punished and the work that they undertake. A forthcoming Green Paper will outline how the Government intend to give the public more opportunities to propose work for offenders in local areas by for example, expanding the citizens panels, which are currently being piloted in six areas.
	To increase visibility to the public high visibility distinctive clothing for offenders undertaking Community Payback was introduced on 1 December.

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many  (a) complaints and  (b) items of correspondence have been received by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in relation to historical sex abuse investigations in the UK in each year since 2001.

Maria Eagle: Since 2001, there has been one complaint made to the Commission in relation to a care home sexual abuse case. This complaint, made in 2001, was by an applicant who had applied unsuccessfully to the Commission for his case to be reviewed in 1999 and who was dissatisfied with the way in which the Commission determined his case. The complaint, which was not upheld, was investigated by the Commission's complaint manager in accordance with the Commission's formal complaints procedure.
	Since 2001, the Commission has received 39 applications relating to cases of this nature. By year:
	
		
			   Number of applications 
			 2001 8 
			 2002 8 
			 2003 7 
			 2004 5 
			 2005 5 
			 2006 1 
			 2007 5 
			 2008 0 
			 2009 to date 0 
		
	
	It has not been possible in the time available to calculate the exact figure, or identify the year in which a particular item of correspondence has been received. The Commission estimate that, since 2001, it has received 1,940 items of correspondence in relation to the 39 cases of this nature.

Dangerous Dogs Act 1991

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2009,  Official Report, column 1332W, on dangerous dogs: convictions, how many of the offences for which persons were found guilty fell under  (a) section 1 and  (b) section 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.

Maria Eagle: Data showing the number of persons found guilty of offences under sections 1 and 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in England and Wales from 1997 to 2007 (latest available) are shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Number of persons found guilty at all courts of offences under sections 1 and 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, England and Wales, 1997 to 2007( 1,) ( 2) 
			   1997  1998  1999 ( 3) 2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007 
			 Section 1 19 15 12 8 4 7 3 17 11 6 74 
			 Section 3 218 385 412 422 487 487 516 547 605 658 703 
			 Total 237 400 424 430 491 494 519 564 616 664 777 
			 (1) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates' courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table.  Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform-Evidence and analysis unit.

Mentally Disturbed Offenders

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2008,  Official Report, column 474W, on the Bradley Review, when he expects to receive Lord Bradley's report.

David Hanson: Lord Bradley has now submitted his report and the Government expect to be able to publish it, along with the response, before the end of April 2009.

Young Offender Institutions

Ashok Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what percentage of inmates in young offender institutions are taking part in programmes to rehabilitate them into society.

David Hanson: The National Offender Management Service delivers a broad range of interventions to address the particular risks and needs of offenders. This includes a number of accredited offending behaviour programmes and interventions that address drug misuse. These are a key element of the Service's work to reduce re-offending. The number of individual prisoners accessing interventions is not collated centrally. However, the number of intervention commencements is recorded.
	In 2007-08 there were 1,246 offending behaviour programme commencements in establishments whose primary role was a young offender institution (YOI).
	All YOIs provide a comprehensive drug treatment framework, based on the National Treatment Agency's revised models of care, to address the different needs of drug-misusers. The interventions available are designed to meet the needs of low, moderate and severe drug misusers—irrespective of age. gender or ethnicity.
	Interventions include:
	Clinical services (detoxification and/or maintenance prescribing)—available in all YOIs in England and Wales.
	Counselling. Assessment. Referral. Advice and Throughcare services (CARATs)—available in all YOIs in England and Wales.
	Intensive Drug Rehabilitation programmes:
	The Short Duration programme is available in six YOIs (1)
	P-ASRO (prisons Addressing Substance Related Offending)—available in seven YOIs.
	Young People's Substance Misuse Service (YPSMS)—a non-clinical service for those under the age of 18 in custody in England and Wales, combining education and prevention with treatment.
	The following table shows the number of drug interventions delivered in establishments whose primary role was a YOI in 2007-08.
	
		
			   2007-08 
			 Clinical treatment (detoxification or maintenance) 1,370 
			 CARATs initial assessments 6,040 
			 YPSMS Initial assessments 7,380 
			 Intensive Drug Rehabilitation programmes 1,250 
			 Total 16,040 
			  Notes: 1. NOMS categorises establishments by their main role only. Establishments that have more than one role are placed in the category that represents the primary or dominant function of the prison. Some young offenders—including all young female prisoners—are held in separate Young Offender units in adult establishments. 2. Individuals could access more than one type of intervention or more than one of the same intervention in any one year. 
		
	
	All figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.

Young Offenders: Greater London

David Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many persistent young offenders were  (a) arrested and  (b) sentenced for a criminal offence at (i) magistrates' courts and (ii) the Crown Court in (A) the London Borough of Bexley and (B) London in each year since 1997.

David Hanson: Statistics on persistent young offenders (PYOs) are only available for those offenders that are arrested and then found guilty. These statistics, split by court type as requested in the question, are only available from 1999 onwards. The figures for Bexley are only available from 2002.
	The PYO figures are designed to measure the speed and efficiency of the youth justice system; through monitoring the pledge to halve the average time from arrest to sentence for dealing with PYOs in England and Wales from 142 days in 1996 to 71 days. They are not designed to measure overall trends in youth crime, and will give a misleading picture of the true trend if used for this purpose.
	The table following on this response shows the number of PYOs dealt with in England and Wales. London and for the London borough of Bexley. The counts of this type of offender are split by court jurisdictions for England and Wales and the London area. The figures for Bexley are very small and therefore subject to year-on-year volatility.
	On 10 December 2008. the Secretary of State for Justice announced in a written ministerial statement that the PYO pledge would be dropped with effect from the end of 2008. This is therefore the last year for which PYO statistics will be published and compiled.
	
		
			  Number of persistent young offenders in England and Wales, London (Metropolitan police force area) the London borough of Bexley, by court jurisdiction 
			   1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007 
			  England and Wales
			 Magistrates courts 8,189 9,297 9,815 11,961 12,889 13,218 13,297 13,511 13,894 14,476 15,414 
			 The Crown court 1,423 1,514 2,160 1,264 961 1,024 941 974 924 1,043 1,095 
			 Total 9,868 11,079 12,014 13,233 13,854 14,244 14,244 14,492 14,827 15,528 16,512 
			 
			  London (Metropolitan police force area)
			 Magistrates courts 541 622 856 948 1,176 1,200 1,129 1,199 1,208 1,325 1,593 
			 The Crown court 182 192 228 148 121 124 121 125 121 161 175 
			 Total 864 1,003 1,091 1,100 1,297 1,325 1,251 1,324 1,329 1,486 1,768 
			 
			  London borough of Bexley
			 Magistrates courts — — — — — — — — — — — 
			 The Crown court — — — — — — — — — — — 
			 Total — — — — — 44 36 28 38 26 52 
			  Notes: 1. The Police National Computer data can contain records where the type of court in which the case was heard was unknown. This missing information only impacts a very small minority of cases, and was more a feature of the data in the past than in the present. Thus, the sum of cases heard in magistrates courts and the Crown court in each year is less than all cases heard in England and Wales. 2. The counts of persistent young offenders for the London borough of Bexley are very small subsets of the overall London and England and Wales populations, and as such are subject to year-to-year volatility. 3. The counts for 2008 are based on provisional (incomplete) data and are therefore subject to being revised. Any revision should not result in a substantial increase in these counts.

Departmental Art Works

Shailesh Vara: To ask the Leader of the House which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in her Office has selected for display in a private office.

Chris Bryant: The Office of the Leader of the House has 10 works of art on loan from the Government art collection. These are listed as follows:
	 Leader of the House of Commons
	Rock Descent IV; painting by Anne Madden
	Three Cadmiums, Four Discs; painting by Patrick Heron
	Untitled; painting by Marta Marce
	Romantic Landscape; painting by William Johnstone
	 Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
	London Blitz 1943; photograph by George Rodger
	Pontllyfni in Snow; print by Kyffin Williams
	Ploughed Field and Haystacks from A Private World; photograph by Paul Nash
	Boat on the Shore, South of France from A Private World; photograph by Paul Nash
	Sustenance 101; photograph by Neeta Madahar
	Sustenance 104; photograph by Neeta Madahar
	All questions to the Leader of the House can be found on:
	www.commonsleader.gov.uk

Energy Supply

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what percentage of the UK's power is generated by  (a) wind farms,  (b) solar,  (c) nuclear power stations,  (d) coal-fired power stations,  (e) clean coal-fired power stations,  (f) gas-fired power stations,  (g) oil-fired power stations,  (h) tidal sources and  (i) geo-thermal power stations.

Mike O'Brien: Separate data is not yet available for tidal, geo-thermal, because of the small number of sites using these technologies. For 2007, the percentages of UK generation by the other sources requested are given in the following table. Corresponding figures for 2008 will be published on 30 July 2009.
	
		
			   Generation (GWh)  Share of total UK  generation (per centage) 
			 Gas 164,473 41.5 
			 Coal 136,685 34.5 
			 Nuclear 63,028 15.9 
			 Oil 4,693 1.2 
			 Wind 5,274 1.3 
			 Solar 11 <0.1 
			 Other fuels 21,978 5.5 
			 Total 396,142 100.0 
			  Source:  Digest of UK Energy Statistics, 2008, Tables 7.4 and 5.6, available at: http://www .berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/energy/statistics/publications/dukes/ page45537.html

Marine Renewables Deployment Fund

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1379W, on Marine Renewables Deployment Fund, which projects are being supported by the Marine Renewable Deployment Fund; and how much the Fund has provided for each such project in each year since the Fund was established.

Mike O'Brien: A breakdown of funds provided and in each financial year for the six research related projects and one infrastructure project supported by the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund since the Fund was established is given as follows:
	
		
			Financial year (£) 
			  Contractor  Description  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09  Total 
			 Edinburgh University Wave energy device performance assessment protocol 25,000 — — 25,000 
			   
			 Edinburgh University Tidal current device performance assessment protocol 22,000 — — 22,000 
			   
			 EMEC Ltd. Draft performance measurement standard for tidal stream devices — 24,000 10,000 34,000 
			 EMEC Ltd. Rewrite of wave performance testing standard — — 11,000 11,000 
			   
			 EMEC Infrastructure EMEC wave facility 197,000 — — 197,000 
			   
			 EMEC Infrastructure EMEC tidal facility (incl. extension) 634,000 300,000 — 934,000 
			   
			 Sustainable Development Commission SDC Tidal Study — 132,000 — 132,000 
			   
			 Hartley Anderson Ltd. W&T environmental research — 235,000 725,000 960,000 
			   
			 Total  878,000 691,000 747,000 2,315,000

Members: Correspondence

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Northavon of 20 October 2008 on behalf of Mr. Peter Kendall regarding Government grants for home insulation.

Mike O'Brien: I replied to the letter from the hon. Member for Northavon the (Steve Webb) on behalf of Mr. P Kendall on 26 February.

Wind Power

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change upon how many wind farms he expects to begin being constructed in each of the next five years.

Mike O'Brien: In order for the UK to meet its share of the EU renewables target, we expect new wind farm projects to begin construction in the next five years. However, it is not possible at this stage to predict the exact number and timings.
	There are currently 176 onshore and offshore wind developments (7855.1 MWe) which have received consent and are awaiting construction in the UK. The years in which these projects will begin construction depend on developers' plans.
	Additionally, there are 224 onshore and offshore wind projects (7261.7 MWe) currently in the planning system. These may not all receive consent. However, a number of those that do receive consent may begin construction in the next five years. Further projects not currently in planning may also come forward in this timeframe.

Wind Power

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many wind turbines he expects to begin being constructed in each of the next five years.

Mike O'Brien: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to his question today 259459 regarding the number of wind farms expected to begin construction in the next five years. It is not possible to provide a precise figure for the number of turbines as this will vary by site according to factors such as location and wind speed. In addition, larger turbines are being developed, meaning fewer turbines may be needed.
	However, taking an average turbine size of 3 megawatts (MW) it is possible to estimate the number of turbines which may be built for projects awaiting construction and those presently in the planning system.
	For example, there are currently 7855.1 MWe of onshore and offshore wind developments awaiting construction. This would be equivalent to 2618 3MW turbines. For those in planning, 7261.7 MWe of onshore and offshore wind would be equivalent to 2420 3MW turbines. However, not all of these projects may receive consent.

Departmental Data Protection

Shailesh Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 13 January 2009,  Official Report, column 573W, on departmental data protection, whether the Customer Information System  (a) is accredited to his Department's information systems security standards and  (b) was so accredited before 1 July 2008.

Jonathan R Shaw: The Customer Information System was accredited for compliance with the Department's prevailing information system security standards in 2005. The system has not subsequently been accredited to the new standards published by the Cabinet Office last year, which only apply to those systems introduced from 1 July 2008. All current systems that are not accredited to the new standards are fully authorised for use with any residual risks having been identified and managed.

Departmental Data Protection

Shailesh Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 13 January 2009,  Official Report, column 573W, on departmental data protection, whether a privacy impact assessment has been carried out on the Customer Information System.

Jonathan R Shaw: The Cabinet Office requirement for privacy impact assessments applies to new systems introduced after 1 July 2008. The Customer Information System was introduced several years ago, and therefore a privacy impact assessment is not required.

Disability Living Allowance

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in receipt of  (a) attendance allowance and  (b) disability living allowance have recorded dementia as a qualifying medical condition on their applications for benefit; what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on automatic enrolment for the (i) 25 per cent. council tax discount for two person households where one of the residents is in receipt of attendance allowance or disability living allowance and (ii) 100 per cent. council tax discount where a single person household is in receipt of attendance allowance or disability living allowance; what estimate his Department has made of the take up of the (A) 25 per cent. and (B) 100 per cent. council tax discounts among households in receipt of attendance allowance or disability living allowance; and if he will make a statement.

Jonathan R Shaw: As at the end of August 2008, there were 107,130 people in receipt of attendance allowance and 10,300 people in receipt of disability living allowance where their main disabling condition has been recorded as dementia.
	There have been no discussions at ministerial or official level with the Department for Communities and Local Government regarding automatic enrolment for council tax discounts. No estimates have been made about the take-up of council tax discounts among households where someone is in receipt of attendance allowance or disability living allowance.
	 Notes:
	1. Disability living allowance figures are rounded to the nearest 100 and have been adjusted to be consistent with WPLS data. Attendance allowance caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
	2. Although the preferred data source for benefit statistics is 100 per cent. Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study, the 5 per cent. sample data has been used in this case because it provides some detail not yet available from the 100 per. cent data sources, in particular, more complete information on the disabling condition of disability living allowance claimants.
	3. Where more than one disability is present only the main disabling condition is recorded.
	4. A diagnosed medical condition does not mean that someone is automatically entitled to disability living allowance. Entitlement is dependent on an assessment of how much help someone needs with personal care and/or mobility because of their disability. These statistics are only collected for administrative purposes.
	5. Totals show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital.
	 Sources:
	Department for Work and Pensions, Information Directorate, 5 per cent. sample (DLA) and DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (AA)

Members: Correspondence

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Northavon of 29 October 2008 on behalf of Alison Crump, regarding legal advice given to those completing benefit forms.

Jonathan R Shaw: A reply was sent to the hon. Member on 26 February 2009.

Social Security Benefits: Disabled

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 24 February 2009,  Official Report, column 22WS, on disability benefits, what changes his Department has made to the eligibility criteria for payment of disability benefits as a consequence of the consideration of the European Court of Justice decision of 18 October 2007.

Jonathan R Shaw: There have been no changes to the eligibility criteria for payment of disability benefits applied domestically, as a consequence of the European Court of Justice judgment of 18 October 2007.
	For people going to live or already living in another European economic area (EEA) state or Switzerland, their claims must be considered under the provisions of the sickness benefit chapter of the European Regulation 1408/71. For these customers, the ordinary residence and presence conditions, which apply domestically, are not applied. Other domestic conditions of entitlement, such as the disability conditions and the past presence test, still apply. The latter test, under domestic legislation, requires a customer to be present in Great Britain for not less than 26 out of the last 52 weeks and it applies for every day that a customer claims benefit. However, for people going to live or already living in another EEA state or Switzerland, the test has been modified: for customers taking the benefit away with them, it is last applied on the date of 'export' and for customers claiming from another EEA state or Switzerland it is applied only once, on the date on which entitlement to benefit can be established.

State Retirement Pensions

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  when he will publish details of the scheme under the Pensions Act 2008 allowing people to buy back additional years of Class 3 National Insurance contributions; from what date the new Act will apply; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  whether he plans to  (a) publish explanatory literature,  (b) establish a telephone help contact point and  (c) provide other public information on the terms of the scheme under the Pensions Act 2008 for people to buy back additional years of Class 3 national insurance contributions; what personalised advice services will be provided to individuals on making such payments; and if he will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: holding answer 9 February 2009
	 On 24 October the Government announced that certain people reaching state pension age between 6 April 2008 and 5 April 2015 could pay up to six extra years of voluntary class 3 national insurance contributions for tax years from 1975, providing they already have 20 qualifying years (including full years of home responsibilities protection). This measure was contained in the 2008 Pensions Act.
	Information about the measure is available on the Pension Service website at:
	www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/state-pension/basic/faqs.asp
	That information can also be accessed from HM Revenue and Customs' website. We will update the information before the measure comes into force on 6 April 2009. I am placing a copy in the Library.
	The Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue and Customs are also currently working together to agree business procedures for the measure and what changes may be needed to leaflets, letters and forms.

Rural Community Enterprises

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what support she plans to make available to community enterprises in rural areas in 2009-10.

Hazel Blears: My Department is presently finalising the details of our £70m Community builders programme which will support and sustain community led organisations in local neighbourhoods to improve opportunities for local people. All community enterprises, both rural and urban, are welcome to apply.

Council Housing: Standards

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1778W, on council housing: Crosby, how much funding has been allocated to Sefton Borough Council in 2008-09 to reduce the number of council homes that do not meet the Decent Homes Standard.

Iain Wright: No funding has been allocated to Sefton metropolitan borough council in 2008-09 to reduce the number of council homes that do not meet the Decent Homes Standard. The council transferred its stock to One Vision Housing (a Registered Social Landlord) under large scale voluntary transfer arrangements in October 2006).

Disadvantaged

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell of 16 October 2008,  Official Report, column 1410W, on pensioners: low incomes, what the 2007 Indices of Multiple Deprivation data on emergency admissions to hospital are, broken down by parliamentary constituency.

John Healey: Indices of Multiple Deprivation data on emergency admissions to hospital is published at lower super output area level (geographical units with an average of 1,500 population).
	We do not produce a score for this at parliamentary constituency level.

Housing: Expenditure

Karen Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much central Government expenditure there was on housing in  (a) cash and  (b) real terms in each year since 1979.

Sadiq Khan: Data on public expenditure by function is published annually in "Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses". The latest edition was published in April 2008 (HC 489) and includes data from financial year 1987-88 up to and including 2007-08.

Lobbying

Bob Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2009,  Official Report, columns 1697-8W, on Lord Truscott, whether Baroness Andrews was involved in decisions on the application for the development of a natural gas storage facility at Preesall Saltfield, Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Iain Wright: Ministerial decisions on recovered planning appeals and called-in planning applications are all taken in the name of the Secretary of State, often by other planning Ministers. In this particular case, the decision was taken by Baroness Andrews. Ministers adhere to strict propriety rules when making decisions on planning cases, as set out at:
	http://www.communities.gov,uk/publications/planningandbuilding/guidanceplanningpropriety

Children in Care

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent on children in care in  (a) secure units, homes and hostels,  (b) other residential settings and  (c) residential schools in each year since 1997.

Beverley Hughes: The total amount spent on children looked after in England who are placed in (i) children's homes, (ii) secure accommodation (welfare), (iii) fostering services, (iv) other children's services as well as the amount spent in all of these categories for all children looked after is shown in table 1 as follows. Data prior to 2000-01 was not collected on the same basis and is therefore not comparable. The expenditure by residential schools is not separately identifiable from existing data sources.
	
		
			  Table 1: Net current expenditure on children looked after, 2000-01 to 2007-08( 1, 2, 3) , England 
			  £000 
			  Children looked after  2000-01  2001-02  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08 
			 Children's homes(4) 691,245 713,332 785,152 850,271 917,694 942,176 926,969 901,356 
			 Secure accommodation (welfare)(5) 16,191 16,809 14,447 20,724 29,039 29,433 24,026 24,746 
			 Fostering services(6) 549,077 619,765 695,219 800,684 880,681 962,702 1,047,476 1,110,116 
			 Other children looked after services(7) 51,907 72,187 67,437 85,461 98,545 114,058 120,974 144,816 
			 Total children looked after 1,308,421 1,422,092 1,562,255 1,757,140 1,925,958 2,048,369 2,119,446 2,181,033 
			 (1 )Source: Personal Social Services Expenditure (PSSEX1 return) and Unit Costs: England 2007-08 publication available at http://www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/social-care/adult-social-care-information/personal-social-services-expenditure-and-unit-costs:-england-2007-08 (2 )The PSSEX1 return was first collected in 2000-01 by the Department for Health. Since 2004-05 the return has been the responsibility of the Information Centre for health and social care. (3) Includes the costs of looking after children for continuous periods of more than 24 hours. (4 )Children's homes includes residential care in Voluntary Children's and Registered Children's Homes as defined in Children Act 1989. It includes: community homes, associated independent visitor costs and relevant contact payments under sections 20/34 of the Children Act 1989, homes where education is provided, but does not attract education department funds, and boarding schools. Includes the social services share of the costs of community homes with education provision and the social services element of accommodating children with special education needs in schools where the education element is met by the education department. Note: the funding of the children's education is recorded in the Education SEA. Excludes mother and baby homes (these are included in 'other children looked after services' category) and secure units attached to community homes (these are included in the 'secure accommodation (Welfare)' category). Also excludes respite care for those children not meeting the definition of children looked after. (5 )Includes the costs of providing or purchasing secure accommodation for children who pose a risk to themselves, to others or have a secure accommodation requirement for welfare, rather than youth justice reasons, under the Children Act 1989. (6 )Includes all fees and allowances paid to foster parents and the costs of social worker and other support staff who support foster carers. Including: mainstay placements, link placements, permanence placements, temporary/respite fostering, placements with relatives/friends, other than a parent, under foster care arrangements (see other children looked after services as follows), placed pending adoption under S13 (1) Adoption Act 1976, associated independent visitor costs and relevant contact payments under sections 20/34 of the Children Act 1989. Excludes remand fostering and social work costs related directly to the fostered children. (7 )Includes support to looked after young people: in NHS/other establishments providing nursing/medical care, residential, respite and emergency nights in residential beds at family centres, in lodgings or hostels, in mother and baby homes, living independently in flats, bed and breakfast establishments or with friends, in residential employment, placed with their parent or person with parental responsibility, independent visitor costs and relevant contact payments under sections 20/34 of the Children Act 1989 not included under children's homes or fostering services aforementioned.

Children: Databases

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps he plans to take to protect children whose data is compromised by breach of security in ContactPoint.

Beverley Hughes: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to his earlier question on 26 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1068W.

Cross-department Assessment Panel

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 11 February 2009,  Official Report, column 2105W, on Cross-department Assessment Panel, what the names of the panel members are.

Beverley Hughes: I refer the hon. Member to my previous answer of 11 February 2009,  Official Report, column 2105W.

General Certificate of Secondary Education

Nick Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 6 June 2007,  Official Report, column 496W, on educational attainment, 
	(1)  how many  (a) maintained secondary schools and  (b) independent secondary schools fell within each percentage point in terms of the proportion of pupils at the end of key stage 4 who achieved seven or more GCSEs at A* to C including English and mathematics in 2008;
	(2)  how many  (a) maintained secondary schools and  (b) independent secondary schools fell within each percentage point in terms of the proportion of pupils at the end of key stage 4 who achieved nine or more GCSEs at A* to C including English and mathematics in 2008.

Jim Knight: The information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

General Certificate of Secondary Education

Nick Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 30 April 2007,  Official Report, columns 1468-69W, on GCSE, if he will list the bottom 200 schools in terms of proportions achieving five or more GCSEs at A* to C including English, mathematics, science and a modern foreign language.

Jim Knight: The information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Members: Correspondence

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Northavon of 2 October 2008 on behalf of Mr. Mike Burgess, which was transferred to his office for reply by the Prime Minister's office.

Jim Knight: I replied to you on the 23 October 2008 as Minister with responsibility for this policy area.

Pre-School Education

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 27 January 2009,  Official Report, columns 490-91W, on pre-school education, how many and what proportion of children  (a) under the age of two,  (b) aged two,  (c) aged three and  (d) aged four years were in (i) full day care, (ii) full day care in children's centres, (iii) sessional care, (iv) after school clubs, (v) holiday clubs, (vi) childminder care, (vii) nursery schools, (viii) primary schools with nursery and reception classes and (ix) primary schools with reception but no nursery in each year since 1997.

Beverley Hughes: The Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey collects information on the ages of children in child care and early years providers in England. The following tables show the number and proportion of children attending child care settings for each year for which data is available. Data in the following tables are from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Childcare and Early Years Providers Surveys. Data are not available separately for those aged under one year. In the 2005 survey data are only available for two age bands: under two, and between two and four years. Data for earlier years are not available.
	
		
			  Table 1: Number of children attending child  care and early years providers by age ,  2007 
			  Type of p rovider  Under  2  years  2  years  3  years  4  years 
			 Full day care 167,900 203,100 249,700 144,400 
			 Full day care in children's centres 14,300 18,800 19,700 11,000 
			 Sessional care 5,200 63,500 158,600 93,700 
			 After school 2,800 4,100 11,300 32,000 
			 Holiday clubs 4,200 5,800 10,600 19,200 
			 Childminder 53,300 39,700 33,600 26,500 
			 Nursery schools(1) — — 17,600 20,600 
			 Primary schools with nursery and reception classes(1) — — 119,200 214,000 
			 Primary schools with reception but no nursery — — — 83,800 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: Proportion of children in England attending child  care and early years providers by age ,  2007 
			  Percentage 
			  Type of p rovider  Under  2  years   2  years   3  years   4  years 
			 Full day care 13 34 42 25 
			 Full day care in children's centres 1 3 3 2 
			 Sessional care 0 10 27 16 
			 After school 0 1 2 6 
			 Holiday clubs 0 1 2 3 
			 Childminder 4 7 6 5 
			 Nursery schools() — — 3 4 
			 Primary schools with nursery and reception classes — — 20 37 
			 Primary schools with reception but no nursery — — — 15 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 3: Number of children attending child care and early years provides by age, 2006 
			  Type of p rovider  Under  2  years  2  years  3  years  4  years 
			 Full day care 169,200 206,600 259,900 174,100 
			 Sessional care 98,700 189,100 349,300 230,800 
			 Before school 36,700 44,900 65,400 55,600 
			 After school 41,000 50,300 73,400 66,400 
			 Holiday care 55,400 68,400 91,700 73,100 
			 Childminders 47,300 37,600 33,500 24,000 
			 Primary school with nursery(1) — — 96,000 16,700 
			 Primary school with reception(1) — — — 17,100 
			 Maintained nursery(1) — — 14,900 1,400 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 4: Proportion of children in England attending child  care and early years providers by age ,  2006 
			  Percentage 
			  Type of p rovider  Under  2  years   2  years   3  years   4  years  
			 Full day care 13.1 32.9 42.9 29.5 
			 Sessional care 7.6 30.1 57.6 39.2 
			 Before school 2.8 7.2 10.8 9.4 
			 After school 3.2 8.0 12.1 11.3 
			 Holiday care 4.3 10.9 15.1 12.4 
			 Childminder 3.7 6.0 5.5 4.1 
			 Primary schools with nursery(1) — — 15.8 2.8 
			 Primary schools with reception(1) — — — 2.9 
			 Maintained nursery(1) — — 2.5 0.2 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 5: Number of children attending child  care and early years providers by age ,  2005 
			  Type of p rovider  Under  2  years old  2 to 4  years old 
			 Full day care 146,400 491,400 
			 Sessional day care 9,000 354,000 
			 Out of school 10,700 79,300 
			 Childminders 47,600 82,800 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 6: Proportion of children in England attending child  care and early years providers by age ,  2005 
			  Percentage 
			  Type of p rovider  Under  2  years old   2 to 4  years old  
			 Full day care 11.5 27.5 
			 Sessional day care 0.7 19.8 
			 Out of school 0.8 4.4 
			 Childminders 3.8 4.6 
			 (1 )These providers were only asked to provide data on the age groups where proportions are presented.  Notes: 1. Children may attend more than one provider and therefore will be included in the figures and proportions for more than one of the provider types in the tables. For this reason some columns total more than 100 per cent. 2. Sessional care: defined as "facilities where children under eight attend day are for no more than five sessions a week, each session being less than a continuous period of four hours in any day. Where two sessions are offered in any one day, there is a break between sessions with no children in the care of the provider."

Pre-School Education

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 5 February 2009,  Official Report, column 1478W, on pre-school education, by what date he expects the extension of free early education entitlement to nursery care from 12.5 hours to 15 hours a week to apply in the case of two year olds in all local authority areas.

Beverley Hughes: The extension to the free early education entitlement for three and four year-olds from 12.5 hours to 15 hours a week will be delivered, in all local authorities, by September 2010.
	An offer of free early education to 15 per cent. of the most disadvantaged two year-olds and their families will begin to be delivered in all local authorities by September 2009. We will be testing offers of both 10 and 15 hours in different local authorities, while we evaluate the best approach to further roll out of the offer.
	Decisions regarding the pace and scale of wider roll out will be taken based on evidence gathered from the pilot and in the light of wider fiscal considerations as part of the next comprehensive spending review.

Pupil Referral Units: Young Offenders

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of children in pupil referral units were subsequently detained in young offender institutions in the last year for which data are available.

Beverley Hughes: Data on the number of young people in pupil referral units who were subsequently imprisoned in young offender institutions (YOIs) is not collected centrally.

School Meals

Michael Fallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the effects of the new requirements for nutritional analysis of school lunches on the capacity of schools to  (a) maintain their own menus and  (b) provide nutritionally-balanced meals; what representations he has received from schools on the matter; and if he will make a statement.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Nutrient-based standards have been mandatory in primary schools since September 2008 and come into effect in secondary and special schools from September 2009. The School Food Trust has undertaken pilots in both primary and secondary schools to assess the practical steps schools and catering organisations would need to take in order to implement the standards. Both sets of pilots, found that while implementing the nutrient-based standards, does require schools to change those menus that are not compliant, the standards are nevertheless achievable and essential to improving the nutritional health of children. The lessons learned from both the primary and secondary pilots have been published in the trust's guidance on introducing nutrient-based standards which includes case studies at primary and secondary level.
	The School Food Trust has produced a caterer's guide to enable caterers to gather the information needed to demonstrate compliance with the standards. It has also undertaken an independent review of Nutritional Analysis Support Packages; this has been published as a guide and distributed to schools who manage their own catering services.
	While we are aware of concern in some parts of the sector around introducing nutritional standards in secondary schools from September, no representations from schools have been received on these.

Special Educational Needs: Young Offender Institution

Madeleine Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 11 February 2009,  Official Report, columns 2097-8W, on special educational needs: young offenders, what estimate he has made of the cost of undertaking an educational needs assessment within 10 days for a young offender placed in a young offenders institution to the  (a) Prison Service and  (b) local authority within whose area the young offenders institution is located; and how these costs compare to those which would be incurred if the local authority in which the young offender was resident immediately prior to a custodial sentence being imposed were required to provide copies of relevant psychological reports and assessments within the same time frame.

Beverley Hughes: Cost estimates sought in this question are not available. However, I can report that:
	  (a) It is not possible to separate out the cost of conducting an educational assessment on a child or young person in juvenile custody from other delivery as the cost is incorporated into the hourly rate paid to staff working in juvenile custodial establishments. As custodial establishments vary in size, the larger ones will carry out proportionately more assessments and will therefore benefit from economies of scale in price negotiations within awarding bodies.
	  (b) Local authorities are currently not responsible for assessing the educational needs of young people in young offender institutions because local authorities do not currently have responsibility for providing education and training for young people in juvenile custody. The current Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill proposes legislation to change this to make local authorities responsible for securing education and training for persons in juvenile custody.

Sure Start Programme

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 22 January 2009,  Official Report, column 1710W, on Sure Start programme, how many new Sure Start centres were designated in each month in  (a) 2007 and  (b) 2006.

Beverley Hughes: The figures in the following table show the number of Sure Start children's centres designated in each month in 2006 and 2007.
	
		
			  Sure Start children's centres designated 
			  Month  Number 
			  2006  
			 January 39 
			 February 74 
			 March 274 
			 April 13 
			 May 3 
			 June 20 
			 July 23 
			 August 28 
			 September 103 
			 October 14 
			 November 8 
			 December 6 
			   
			  2007  
			 January 7 
			 February 56 
			 March 149 
			 April 6 
			 May 24 
			 June 28 
			 July 70 
			 August 35 
			 September 98 
			 October 95 
			 November 112 
			 December 159

Sure Start Programme

Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 22 January 2009,  Official Report, column 1710W, on Sure Start programme, how many new Sure Start centres are planned to be established in each month in  (a) 2009 and  (b) 2010.

Beverley Hughes: Local authorities are responsible for planning the delivery of Sure Start children's centres so that by 2010 there will be at least 3,500 children's centres, providing universal access to services for children under five and their families. Local authorities successfully exceeded the target for 2,500 Sure Start children's centres in March 2008. There are now over 2,900 centres offering services to over 2.3 million children under five and their families.
	Together for Children, the Department's delivery partner for the children's centre programme, is supporting local authorities in finalising their plans and timescales for delivery and will monitor progress against those plans.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Overseas Aid

Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether his Department plans to increase the assistance it provides to  (a) disarmament,  (b) demobilisation,  (c) repatriation,  (d) reintegration and  (e) rehabilitation programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ivan Lewis: The UK Government are firmly committed to assisting disarmament, demobilisation, repatriation, reintegration and rehabilitation programmes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We have provided $35 million (around £19 million) to the World Bank-led seven year multi-country demobilisation and reintegration programme (MDRP). The MDRP has invested more than $200 million in the first phase of demobilisation and reintegration in the DRC. The UK Government has also recently granted an additional £1 million to the World Bank emergency trust fund focusing on reintegration of combatants, including children associated with armed forces, in Eastern Congo, and an additional $450,000 to the UN mission in DRC (MONUC) to support the repatriation of Rwandese combatants to their country of origin.

Departmental Manpower

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development who each person is categorised as Head of Profession as referred to in his Department's Annual Report 2008, chapter 10, point 10.7; and what  (a) professional qualifications and  (b) work experience each has in relation to international development.

Ivan Lewis: The following gives the professional qualifications and work experience in relation to international development of the current Heads of Profession in DFID:
	 Head of Profession Economics: Sue Holloway
	BSc Economics
	5 years small business development in Latin America
	10 years in Government Economic Service including 18 months in DFID as regional Economic Adviser for Latin America
	 Acting Head of Profession Education: Jo Bourne
	MA Education and International Development Education
	7 years teaching overseas
	10 years experience with DFID as Education Adviser including period as acting Head of Office
	 Head of Profession Environment: Ian Curtis
	BSc Civil Engineering
	Professional Affiliations: Chartered Environmentalist, Member of Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), Member of Institute of Chartered Engineers (ICE), Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (FRGS)
	15 years development work overseas (Africa and Asia) with the private sector, an NGO, DFID and the Swiss Government (SDC)
	Over 30 years professional experience on water and environmental management issues
	 Head of Profession Governance and Conflict: Mark Robinson
	MA Agrarian Studies and PhD Comparative Politics
	21 years experience as research fellow in development including with the Ford Foundation in India
	 Acting Head of Profession Health: John Worley
	MSc Demography
	10 years experience in global health with NGOs
	14 years experience as Health Adviser in DFID
	 Head of Profession Infrastructure: Yusaf Samiullah
	PhD Environmental Science and Ecotoxicology (London)
	Professional affiliations: Chartered Biologist, Institute of Biology (M I Biol); Chartered Member, Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM); Member, Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA); Principal, Environmental Auditors Registration Association (EARA); Chartered Civil Engineer, Fellow, Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE)
	29 years professional and relevant experience (7 in the private sector) in dozens of countries
	10 years experience overseas for DFID in Africa, Middle East and Asia
	 Head of Profession Livelihoods: John Barrett
	PhD in veterinary economics, MSc in agricultural economics and MSc is Pharmacology
	16 years long-term experience working in developing countries
	30 years professional involvement in development, including work in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Caribbean and the Far East
	 Head of Profession Private Sector Development: Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi
	MPhil—Development Studies and MPhil Political Economy
	2 years experience as a political economy researcher
	12 years experience as Private Sector Development adviser in DFID
	14 years professional development experience on economic growth issues in over 15 countries in Africa and Asia
	 Head of Profession Social Development: Ellen Wratten
	MSc Environment Planning and professional qualification in Urban and Regional Planning
	8 years experience in planning in the UK and overseas
	5 years experience as lecturer in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries and working as part-time development consultant
	13 years experience as Social Development Adviser with DFID
	 Head of Profession Statistics: Heidi Grainger
	PhD Sociology
	5 years work with indigenous peoples in various parts of the world
	10 plus years teaching of research methodology (especially quantitative)
	8 plus years teaching of colonial/post colonial issues
	Written various academic papers

Departmental Manpower

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to increase its recruitment of people with disabilities in line with targets for the Civil Service for 2008-09.

Ivan Lewis: The Department for International Development (DFID) holds the Job Centre Plus Two Ticks' disability symbol which offers a guaranteed interview to applicants who declare a disability and meet the minimum standard for the post.
	DFID is currently reviewing its recruitment strategy for reaching a diverse audience. Over the last two years, DFID placed adverts in the 'Disability Now' publication. We are in the process of analysing the results, exploring alternative opportunities and consulting with other Government Departments.
	The civil service has set a target of 5 per cent. disabled staff within the senior civil service over the next five years. DFID will aspire to meet 4 per cent. by 2011. DFID continues to monitor and analyse disability through its annual diversity report. The 2008-09 report will be published in April.

Departmental Video Conferencing

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2009,  Official Report, column 1310W, on departmental video conferencing, where the video conferencing facilities are located  (a) in the UK and  (b) world-wide.

Michael Foster: The Department for International Development's (DFID) video-conferencing units in the United Kingdom are located in the Headquarters offices at 1 Palace Street, London and in East Kilbride, Glasgow. In addition, five members of the Top Management Group have small desktop video-conferencing units at their home addresses at various locations in the UK.
	The world-wide units are located in the following 40 countries;
	Afghanistan
	Bangladesh
	Barbados
	Belgrade
	Brazil
	Burma
	Cambodia
	China
	Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
	Ethiopia
	France
	Ghana
	India
	Indonesia
	Iraq
	Israel
	Italy
	Jamaica
	Kenya
	Kosovo
	Kyrgyzstan
	Malawi
	Mozambique
	Nepal
	Nicaragua
	Nigeria
	Pakistan
	Rwanda
	Sierra Leone
	South Africa
	Sudan
	Switzerland
	Tajikistan
	Tanzania
	Uganda
	USA
	Yemen
	Zambia
	Zimbabwe
	Bosnia

Population: China

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether account is taken of the human rights' implications of the Chinese one-child policy in his Department's decisions on aid to China; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: The Department for International Development (DFID) works closely and has ongoing constructive dialogue with the Chinese Government regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is an important element of our support for reproductive health (through agencies such as UNFPA and IPPF) and HIV prevention. The UK Government do not support China's "one child" policy or its implementation. We are working to promote and uphold the principles of free and informed choice as set out at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994.
	Although the one-child policy remains in place, China has made good progress in ensuring reproductive rights more generally, especially through its implementation of the 2002 Law of Population and Family Planning. The law spells out rights and responsibilities for clients, service providers and family planning officials. Most provinces have enacted their own regulations in accordance with national law.

UN Population Fund

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development 
	(1)  if he will place in the Library a copy of the annual report of the United Nations Population Fund for each of the last two years; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  if he will place in the Library copies of reports on population control in China received by his Department from the  (a) International Planned Parenthood Federation and  (b) United Nations Fund for Population Activities; and if he will make a statement;
	(3)  if he will place in the Library copies of recent comments made by  (a) the United Nations Population Fund and  (b) the International Planned Parenthood Federation relating to coercive population policies in China; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: Copies of the last two annual reports published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will be placed in the Library. UN agencies publish their annual reports on their external websites:
	www.unfpa.org/about/report
	The Department for International Development (DFID) do not hold copies of reports and/or comments on population control in China from or with regard to  ( a ) UNFPA and ( b ) the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The UK Government do not support China's "one child" policy or its implementation. We are working to promote and uphold the principles of free and informed choice as set out at the international conference on population and development in Cairo in 1994. UNFPA and IPPF are both working to promote reform and change in China. Neither supports the "one child" policy or its implementation. As a condition of UNFPA support, the Chinese authorities have removed birth quotas and targets within the counties in which UNFPA provides support.

UN Population Fund

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent discussions  (a) Ministers in his Department and  (b) officials have had with the United States administration on its decision to (i) reinstate the US contribution to the United Nations Population Fund and (ii) rescind the Mexico City policy; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: Meetings have been held at official level with both the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) since the new Administration took power. Both USAID and PEPFAR are experiencing considerable transition and it will take some months before policy and funding changes are clarified. Discussions will be on-going to engage with and where appropriate to influence this process.
	The UK Government welcome early signs of the new US Administration's support for family planning and sexual reproductive health and rights. Rescinding the Mexico City Policy paves the way for organisations such as the International Planned Parenthood Fund (IPPF) to apply for US funding. In addition the US President has made a clear statement in support of UNFPA and the US Congress has already passed the omnibus financial year 2009 Spending Bill that provides for US$50 million for UNFPA.

UN Population Fund

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the United Nations Population Fund in promoting non-coercive approaches to family planning in China since October 2007; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has successfully demonstrated that non-coercive family planning methods can be effective in China. UNFPA's policies and activities in China, as in the rest of the world, are in strict conformity with the unanimously adopted programme of action of the international conference on population and development in 1994.
	UNFPA's policy of constructive engagement with the Chinese Government is helping to influence China's approach to reproductive health and rights. For example the Chinese national population and family planning commission and the Ministry of Health have begun to harmonise standards of service delivery protocols to include UNFPA quality of care principals, such as counselling, to enable informed choice and promote client rights.

Zimbabwe: Drinking Water

Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment he has made of the ability of the population of Zimbabwe to access clean water; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: A recent household survey conducted by UNICEF in Zimbabwe showed that 77 per cent. of households across rural areas relied on a safe water source. A large number therefore, do not have good enough water to prevent exposure to diseases such as cholera. In urban areas, where most people rely on piped municipal water, a breakdown in infrastructure and a lack of chemicals has placed an increasingly large number of households at risk.